Leotychides
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Leutychides · Leutychides son of Menares · Leutychides the Lacedaemonian
in the texts
The Histories
Co-king of Sparta who successfully challenges Demaratus' legitimacy and succeeds him, later disgraced through bribery and exiled.
Cleomenes wanted revenge, so he made a deal with Leotychides son of Menares son of Agis, of the same family as Demaratus.
After the loss of Zeuxidemus, Leutychides married a second wife, Eurydame, sister of Menius and daughter of Diactorides;
From this affair Leotychides was hostile toward Demaratus, so at Cleomenes ' instigation he took an oath against him, saying that he was not king of the Spartans by right, since he was not Ariston 's son.
History of the Peloponnesian War
King of the Lacedaemonians who commanded the Greek forces at Mycale and then returned home with the Peloponnesian allies.
Leotychides, king of the Lacedaemonians, who was the leader of the Greeks at Mycale, returned home with the allies that were from the Peloponnese;
Hellenica
Claimant to the Spartan throne who asserted he was the son of Agis, opposed by his uncle Agesilaus, and ultimately passed over by the state.
But Diopeithes, a man very well versed in oracles, said in support of Leotychides that there was also an oracle of Apollo which bade the Lacedaemonians beware of the lame kingship.
Nay, but my mother, who knows far better than he did, says even to this day that I am.
When the prescribed days of mourning had been religiously observed and it was necessary to appoint a king, Leotychides, who claimed to be a son of Agis, and Agesilaus, a brother of Agis, contended for the kingship.