Agis son of Archidamus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Agis · Agis the son of Archidamus · King Agis
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Apophthegmata Laconica
Spartan king, son of Archidamus, credited with a long chain of terse sayings on statecraft, courage, justice among allies, and skepticism toward foreign rhetoric.
Agis the son of Archidamus, when the Ephors gave orders, Go take the youth, and follow this man into his own country, and he shall guide thee to the very citadel, said:
Lycurgus
A later Spartan king identified as the point at which the unbroken five-hundred-year observance of Lycurgus's laws ended.
History of the Peloponnesian War
King of Sparta and overall commander of the Lacedaemonian forces in the Argos campaign and the Battle of Mantinea; his conduct provokes repeated criticism from both allies and his own city.
It happened too, that Agis, on perceiving the Lacedaemonian left wing, which was opposed to the Montineans and the thousand Argives, to be hard pressed, gave orders for the whole army to advance to the support of the division which was being defeated.
The Lacedaemonians, too, at the same time marched out with all their forces to Leuctra, on their own borders, opposite Mount Lyaeum, under the command of Agis son of Archidamus, their king;
thinking that if they did not quickly prevent it, they would proceed to a greater degree of disaffection, they marched with all their forces, themselves and the helots, against Argos, under the command of Agis son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians.