Agesilaus I
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Agesilaus I
For other uses of this name, see Agesilaus (disambiguation).
Agesilaus I (Greek: Ἀγησίλαος), son of Doryssus, was the sixth king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus.[1] According to Apollodorus of Athens, reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC. Pausanias makes his reign a short one, but contemporary with the legislation of Lycurgus.[2][3] He was succeeded by his son Archelaus. His grandson was Teleclus.
References
- ^ Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867), "Agesilaus I", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 69, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0078.html
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 3
- ^ Clinton, Fasti, i. p. 335
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Agiad King of Sparta | Succeeded by Archelaus |
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