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* Agis I ( died 900 BC ), a Spartan king
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Eurysthenes married Lathria, daughter of Thersander, King of Kleonoe, sister of his sister-in-law Anaxandra, and was the father of his successor, Agis I, founder of the Agiad dynasty of the Kings of Sparta.
He was succeeded by his son Agis III, and was also the father of Eudamidas I.
Agis I ( Greek: ) was a legendary king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty.
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Agis was succeeded by his brother Eudamidas I.
Agis, observing that one of his executioners was moved to tears, said, " Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.
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He began his kingship after the end of the Peloponnesian war after his brother Agis II died and was left without an heir.
He died probably in 427 BC, certainly before the summer of 426 BC, when we find his son Agis II on the throne.
In the subsequent battle of Megalopolis, Agis ' army inflicted heavy casualties on the larger Macedonian force but was finally defeated, Agis himself died trying to gain his surviving men time to withdraw to safety.
His son Cleomenes III eventually succeeded him, having been married at age 18 to Agiatis ( d. 224 BC ), widow of Agis IV, the Eurypontid king ; they had at least one son together who died in Egypt with his grandmother.
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* Agis IV ( 265 BC – 241 BC ), a Spartan king ; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives
* Agis IV, Eurypontid King of Sparta who has failed in his attempt to reform Sparta's economic and political structure ( b. c. 265 BC )
During Alexander's campaigns in the east, the Spartan king, Agis III sent a force to Crete in 333 BC with the aim of securing the island for Sparta.
Agis next took command of allied Greek forces against Macedon, gaining early successes, before laying siege to Megalopolis in 331 BC.
By Aristotle's day ( 384 – 322 BC ) citizenship had been reduced from 9, 000 to less than 1, 000, and then further decreased to 700 at the accession of Agis IV in 244 BC.
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More dangerous enemies were nearer home ; tribes in Thrace rebelled in 332 BC, led by Memnon of Thrace, the Macedonian governor of the region, followed shortly by the revolt of Agis III, king of Sparta.
Agis started in 331 BC to besiege the city with his entire army, generating great alarm in Macedon.
This helped to create, with Thessalian help and many mercenaries, a force double that of Agis, which Antipater in person led south in 330 BC to confront the Spartans.
In around 242 BC, Leonidas was exiled from Sparta and forced to seek refuge in the temple of Athena after opposing the reforms of the Eurypontid King, Agis IV.
Agis III succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea.
In 333 BC, Agis went with a single trireme to the Persian commanders in the Aegean, Pharnabazus and Autophradates, to request money and armaments for carrying on hostile operations against Alexander the Great in Greece.
Agis IV ( Gr., c. 265 BC – 241 BC ), the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 24th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta.
Agis succeeded his father as king in 245 BC, at around the age of 20, and reigned four years.
In 243 BC, after the liberation of Corinth by Aratus, the general of the Achaean League, Agis led an army against him.
In 241 BC, Agis was betrayed by some friends and thrown into prison.
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Agis is supported by his wealthy mother and grandmother ( who surrender their property ), by his uncle Agesilaus, and by Lysander, who is an ephor ( magistrate with the duty of limiting the power of the king ).
Sparta under King Agis II has a major victory over Argos ( and its allies Athens, Ellis and Mantinea ), which has broken its treaty with Sparta's King Agis II at the insistence of Alcibiades.
Having been joined by the other forces of the league ( Elis, Achaea and Arcadia ), Agis laid siege to Megalopolis.
He succeeded, however, in gaining over three very influential persons: his uncle Agesilaus ( a man of large property, but who, being deeply involved in debt, hoped to profit by the innovations of Agis ), Lysander ( a descendant of the victor of Aegospotami ) and Mandrocleides.
A number of anthroponyms ( some known only from Paeonian coinage ) are attested Agis ( Άγις ), Patraos ( Πατράος ), Lycpeios ( Λύκπειος ), Audoleon ( Αυδολέων ), Eupolemenos ( Ευπολεμένος ), Ariston ( Αρίστων ), etc.
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