Cleomenes I (active ca. 520-490 B.C.) was a brilliant but unstable Spartan king who attempted to extend his country's influence outside the Peloponnesus. A son of Anaxandridas, Cleomenes first displayed his genius in diplomacy in 519 B.C., when the...

(died 491 &BC;) Spartan king (519–491). An Agiad (descendant from the legendary founders of Sparta), he ruled jointly with Demaratus. In 510 he expelled the tyrant Hippias from Athens, then supported the oligarchic party against the democratic...

Cleomenes (Eng. /kli:'ɑməni:z/ Greek Κλεομένης, d. ca. 490 BC) was one of the Kings of Sparta in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Cleomenes is notable for an unusual interest in foreign conquests (unusual for a Spartan king), for his...

Stephen Dixon. I. McSweeney's, 2002. 338 pages. $18.00. Characteristically enough for a book published by McSweeney's, Stephen Dixon's fascinating new novel, I., begins on the cover. There, an "I" and an accompanying period have been cut into the cloth and cardboard, through which...

Low life During the Queen's speech last Christmas Day the dazzlingly beautiful, inarticulate little girl who was acting as Father Christmas presented me with a parcel from under the tree. Keeping one eye on Her Majesty, I unwrapped it. It was a paperback....