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* Agis III ( died 331 BC ), a Spartan king
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Agis and III
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.
* Archidamus V, brother of the murdered Spartan King Agis IV, is called back to Sparta by the Agiad King Cleomenes III, who has no counterpart on the throne by then.
* King Archidamus III is succeeded as the Eurypontid King of Sparta by his son, Agis III.
* While Alexander is fighting in Asia, Agis III of Sparta, profiting from the Macedonian king's absence from Greece, leads some of the Greek cities in a revolt.
He wins a hard-fought Battle of Megalopolis in Arcadia against Agis III of Sparta and his Greek mercenaries.
Agis III is killed, and Spartan resistance is broken.
* Agis III, Eurypontid king of Sparta ( killed in battle )
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.
This was only reinforced when Agis IV and Cleomenes III attempted to " restore the ancestral constitution " at Sparta, which no man then living had experienced.
He was succeeded by his son Agis III, and was also the father of Eudamidas I.
Agis III ( Gr. ) was the eldest son of Archidamus III, and the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta.
Agis III succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea.
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Agis and died
* Agis I ( died 900 BC ), a Spartan king
* Agis II ( died 401 BC ), a Spartan king
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.
Agis and 331
Agis next took command of allied Greek forces against Macedon, gaining early successes, before laying siege to Megalopolis in 331 BC.
Agis started in 331 BC to besiege the city with his entire army, generating great alarm in Macedon.
Agis and BC
* 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 )
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.
* Pleistoanax ( Agaid king r. 458 – 401 BC ) and Agis II ( Eurypontid king r. 427 – 400 BC ), co-kings of Sparta.
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.
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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