Agesilaus I

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Agesilaus I (Gr. Ἀγησίλαος), son of Doryssus, was the sixth king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus.[1] According to Apollodorus, 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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867), “Agesilaus I”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 69 
  2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 3
  3. ^ Clinton, Fasti, i. p. 335
Preceded by
Doryssus		 Agiad King of Sparta Succeeded by
Archelaus

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).