Pausanias (lived 2nd century AD)

Greek geographer, author of a valuably accurate description of Greece compiled from his own travels, Description of Greece, also translated as Itinerary of Greece.

Pausanias

Spartan general who commanded the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC, routing the Persians. As admiral of the Greek fleet in 478 BC he captured Byzantium from the Persians and subjugated most of Cyprus. He became tyrannical, alienating his Greek allies, and was recalled to Sparta. His plot to stir a revolt of the helots was discovered and he fled to a temple of Athena for sanctuary, but was starved to death.

He was the son of King Cleombrotus of Sparta and was regent for Pleistarchus in 479 BC.