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How did Cleomenes acquire his reputation for ruthlessness?

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Cleomenes' reputation for ruthlessness is due chiefly to his attack (c.494 BC) on Argos, in which he slaughtered 6,000 Argives—an exploit that gave Sparta hegemony in S Greece for many years.

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