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Agesilaus returned home shortly after these events, but Iphicrates continued to campaign around Corinth, recapturing many of the strong points which the Spartans had previously taken, although he was unable to retake Lechaeum.
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Agesilaus and returned
The loss, however, of a division ( mora ), destroyed by Iphicrates, neutralized these successes, and Agesilaus returned to Sparta.
Shortly after the stand-off in Thebes, Agesilaus disbanded his army in Thespiae and returned to Peloponnesos through Megara.
After this victory, Agesilaus sailed with his army across the Gulf of Corinth and returned to Sparta.
Leonidas, who had returned to the city, fled again, to Tegea, protected from Agis by Agesilaus, who persuaded Agis and Lysander that the most effective way to secure the consent of the wealthy to the distribution of their lands, would be to begin by cancelling the debts.
Agesilaus and home
On his way home Agesilaus died in Cyrenaica, around the age of 84, after a reign of some 41 years.
* The King of Sparta, Agesilaus II, dies at Cyrene, Cyrenaica, on his way home to Greece from Egypt.
Agesilaus and shortly
This " show of contempt " stopped the advancing Spartan forces, and shortly afterwards Agesilaus withdrew.
This " show of contempt " stopped the advancing Spartan forces, and shortly afterwards Agesilaus withdrew.
Agesilaus and after
Hoping to restore the juntas of oligarchic partisans that he had put in place after the defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, Lysander arranged for Agesilaus II, the Eurypontid Spartan king, to take command of the Greeks against Persia in 396 BC.
* With the support of the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta concludes " the King's Peace " ( or the Peace of Antalcidas, after the Spartan envoy and commander ) with Greek allied forces in a manner favourable to Sparta.
In 385 BC the Spartans, seizing upon some frivolous pretexts, sent an expedition against Mantineia, in which Agesipolis undertook the command, after it had been declined by Agesilaus.
Agesilaus and these
In these campaigns Agesilaus also benefited from the aid of the Ten Thousand, who marched through miles of Persian territory to make it to the Black Sea.
During these campaigns, Lysander attempted to manipulate Agesilaus into ceding his authority.
However, he is unsuccessful in achieving these reforms, and earns the disfavour of King Agesilaus II of Sparta.
Despite the absence of these states, Agesilaus campaigned effectively against the Persians in Lydia, advancing as far inland as Sardis.
Alarmed by these developments, the Spartans prepared to send out an army against this new alliance, and sent a messenger to Agesilaus ordering him to return to Greece.
To oppose these, Agesilaus had 15, 000 hoplites.
Agesilaus and Iphicrates
For among the generation of Epaminondas were famous men: Pelopidas the Theban, Timotheus and Conon, also Chabrias and Iphicrates ... Agesilaus the Spartan, who belonged to a slightly older generation.
While Agesilaus was in camp preparing to sell off his spoils, the Athenian general Iphicrates, with a force composed almost entirely of light troops and peltasts ( javelin throwers ), won a decisive victory against the Spartan regiment that had been stationed at Lechaeum in the Battle of Lechaeum.
Agesilaus and continued
In 4th century BC, c. 390 BC, the cities of Acarnania surrendered to the Spartans under King Agesilaus, and continued to be Spartan allies until joining the Second Athenian Empire in 375 BC.
During his absence Agesilaus so angered the poorer classes by the continued postponement of the division of the lands, that they made no opposition when the enemies of Agis openly brought back Leonidas II and set him on the throne.
Agesilaus and campaign
In 389 BC he conducted a campaign in Acarnania, but two years later the Peace of Antalcidas, warmly supported by Agesilaus, put an end to hostilities.
* Called on by the Ionians to assist them against the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta launches an ambitious campaign in Asia Minor.
Agesilaus ’ first campaign was one which trekked into the eastern Aegean and Persian territories via the Hellespont.
Agesilaus soon began another campaign into the western regions of the Persian Empire.
Agesilaus and around
But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.
Agesilaus immediately wheeled his phalanx around and headed for the Thebans.
Born in Sparta around 545 BC, Leotychidas was a descendant of the Royal House of the Eurypontids ( through Menamus, Agesilaus, Hippocratides, Leotychides, Anaxilaus, Archidamos, Anaxandridas I and Theopompus ) and came to power in 491 BC with the help of the Agiad King Cleomenes I by challenging the legitimacy of the birth of Demaratus for the Eurypontid throne of Sparta.
Agesilaus and Corinth
The Spartans prepared to send out an army against this new alliance of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos ( with the backing of the Achaemenid Empire ) and ordered Agesilaus II to return to Greece.
After this victory, Agesilaus sails with his army across the Gulf of Corinth and returns to Sparta.
* A Spartan expeditionary force under King Agesilaus II crosses the Gulf of Corinth to attack Acarnania, an ally of the anti-Spartan coalition.
Thebes, Corinth, and Athens also refused to participate in a Spartan expedition to Ionia in 398 BC, with the Thebans going so far as to disrupt a sacrifice that the Spartan king Agesilaus attempted to perform in their territory before his departure.
Agesipolis came to the crown just about the time that the confederacy ( partly brought about by the intrigues of the Persian satrap Tithraustes ), which was formed by Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos, against Sparta, rendering it necessary to recall his colleague, Agesilaus II, from Asia ; and the first military operation of his reign was the expedition to Corinth, where the forces of the confederates were assembled.
Agesilaus and points
There was no open conflict between the Greeks and Persia until 396 BC, when the Spartan king Agesilaus briefly invaded Asia Minor ; as Plutarch points out, the Greeks were far too busy overseeing the destruction of their own power to fight against the " barbarians ".
In 391 BC, Agesilaus campaigned in the area, successfully seizing several fortified points, along with a large amount of prisoners and booty.
Agesilaus and which
Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.
An armistice was concluded between Tithraustes and Agesilaus, who left the southern satrapy and again invaded Phrygia, which he ravaged until the following spring.
The Battle of Mantinea, in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.
The Spartan king Agesilaus II argues against punishing Phoebidas, on the grounds that his actions had benefited Sparta, and this was the only standard against which he ought to be judged.
Agesilaus is eventually able to draw them into a pitched battle, in which the Acarnanians are routed.
* Archidamus III, son of Agesilaus II of Sparta, commands a Spartan army which scores a victory over the Arcadians.
Taking advantage of this, the Mantineans decided to unify their settlements into a single city, and to fortify it ; a decision which greatly angered Agesilaus.
That he studied general history, as we see from the quotations in Plutarch's lives of Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, and Demosthenes, which were probably borrowed from the work on Lives.
Plutarch later wrote that Agesilaus was a king of the traditional Spartan ideals, often seen wearing his traditional cloak which was threadbare.
Agesilaus previously refused to punish Phoebidas ( though he was fined ), which have led some modern historians to believe that Phoebidas ' earlier actions were under the direct command of the king.
By levying ships from the Aegean states under his control, Agesilaus had raised a force of 120 triremes, which he placed under the command of his brother-in-law Peisander, who had never held a command of this nature before.
After initial difficulties in coming to grips with the Acarnanians, who kept to the mountains and avoided engaging him directly, Agesilaus was eventually able to draw them into a pitched battle, in which the Acarnanians were routed and lost a number of men.
Agesilaus ( Greek ) was a Greek historian who wrote a work on the early history of Italy, fragments of which are preserved in Plutarch's " Parallel Lives ", and in Stobaeus ' Florilegium.
The Battle of Coronea in 394 BC was a battle in the Corinthian War, in which the Spartans and their allies under King Agesilaus II defeated a force of Thebans and Argives that was attempting to block their march back into the Peloponnese.
Having procured the sanction of the Olympic and Delphic gods for disregarding any attempt which the Argives might make to stop his march, on the pretext of a religious truce, he carried his ravages still farther than Agesilaus had done in 393 BC ; but as he suffered the aspect of the victims to deter him from occupying a permanent post, the expedition yielded no fruit but the plunder.
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