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* Agis IV, Eurypontid King of Sparta who has failed in his attempt to reform Sparta's economic and political structure ( b. c. 265 BC )
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Agis and IV
* Agis IV ( 265 BC – 241 BC ), a Spartan king ; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives
* The Eurypontid King of Sparta, Agis IV, is called away from Sparta when Aratus of Sicyon, temporarily Sparta's ally, requests Agis ' aid in his war against the Aetolians.
* Archidamus V, son of the Spartan King, Eudamidas II, and grandson of Archidamus IV, flees to Messenia after the murder of his brother Agis IV.
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.
* Agis IV
* 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.
* Drawing upon the tradition of the Spartan lawgiver, Lycurgus, the young Eurypontid king of Sparta, Agis IV, seeks to reform a system that distributes the land and wealth unequally and burden the poor with debt.
* Agis IV succeeds his father, Eudamidas II, as King of Sparta.
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.
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.
Agis IV ( Gr., c. 265 BC – 241 BC ), the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 24th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta.
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Agis and Eurypontid
* Pleistoanax ( Agaid king r. 458 – 401 BC ) and Agis II ( Eurypontid king r. 427 – 400 BC ), co-kings of Sparta.
He was able to persuade the Spartans to select Agesilaus II as the new Eurypontid Spartan king following the death of Agis II.
* Agis II, Eurypontid king of Sparta
* King Archidamus III is succeeded as the Eurypontid King of Sparta by his son, Agis III.
* Agis III, Eurypontid king of Sparta ( killed in battle )
He is not to be confused with another Eurypontid Leotychides, the ( allegedly illegitimate ) son of Agis II.
Agis III ( Gr. ) was the eldest son of Archidamus III, and the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta.
Leonidas II opposed the attempted reforms of his Eurypontid co-regent, Agis IV.
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 King
Again during the reign of King Agis, several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles from Pasiphaë's shrine promising remission of debts and redistribution of land.
* Sparta's King Archidamus II is succeeded by his son Agis II.
* 419 King Agis, ruler of Sparta, attacks Argos, makes treaty
King Agis II leads the Spartan force that occupies Decelea in Attica.
* Despite the Peace of Nicias still being in effect, Sparta's King Agis II gathers a strong army at Philus and descends upon Argos by marching at night from the north.
* King Agis II of Sparta escapes having his house razed and being fined 100, 000 drachmae for his failure to press his advantage by promising more successful outcomes in the future.
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.
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.
Lysander and King Agis were for total destruction as were Sparta's leading allies Corinth and Thebes.
The danger of so much power being in the hands of one person had become sufficiently clear that the both King Agis and King Pausanias agreed that Lysander's wings needed to be clipped.
Plutarch has Timaia, the wife of King Agis II, " being herself forward enough to whisper among her helot maid-servants " that the child she was expecting had been fathered by Alcibiades, and not her husband, indicating a certain level of trust.
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