Agis
historical figure · 4 works · 13 mentions · 27 anchored passages
Agis son of Archidamus · Agis, king of the Lacedaemonians · Agis, son of Archidamus · Agis, the Lacedaemonian king · King Agis
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
King of the Lacedaemonians who leads the Peloponnesian army as far as the Isthmus for an invasion of Attica that is then abandoned.
The following summer the Peloponnesians and their allies proceeded as far as the Isthmus for the invasion of Attica, under the command of Agis son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians;
for the Lacedaemonians and Agis their king thought that the affair of Pylus closely affected them;
About the same period of the spring, before the corn was ripe, the Peloponnesians and their allies made an incursion into Attica, under the conduct of Agis son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians;
Hellenica
The Lacedaemonian king who raids from Decelea to the walls of Athens and proposes cutting off the Athenian grain supply by sea.
When Agis saw this, he withdrew in haste, and some few of his rear line were killed by the Athenian light troops.
During these days also, and while Thrasyllus was in Athens, Agis made a raid from Decelea up to the very walls of the city;
Meanwhile Agis, who could see from Decelea great numbers of grain-ships sailing in to Piraeus, said that it was useless for his troops to be trying all this long time to shut off the Athenians from access to their land, unless one should occupy also the country from which the grain was coming in by sea;
Alcibiades 1
A Spartan king, son of Lampido.
And I imagine that even Lampido, daughter of Leotychides and wife of Archidamus and mother of Agis, who have all been kings, would wonder in the same way, when she compared her people’s resources, at your intention of having a contest with her son despite your bad upbringing.
Agesilaus
Spartan king whose death led to the contest between Leotychidas and Agesilaus.
For on the death of King Agis there was a struggle for the throne between Leotychidas, as the son of Agis, and Agesilaus, as the son of Archidamus.
Now when the state pronounced him sole heir to the property of Agis, he gave half of it to his mother’s kinsfolk, because he saw that they were in want;