... a few chapters. In 5.51, her skills at diplomacy and character analysis are shown to have developed at an early age. She is speaking to her father, Kleomenes, when Aristagoras has asked him for more support: "Father, you had better go away, or the stranger will corrupt you." She makes this statement at the age of eight or nine. Herodotus also states that Gorgo was ... present in the Spartan court: Cleomenes told him to, "say what (he) wished and not to mind the child" (Dewald 94). Gorgo also appears in Herodotus in 7.239. In this ... were normally married soon after puberty to men who ...

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