Leotychides
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 17 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.
Thus spoke Leutychides;
But Glaucus put them off and answered in turn:
Glaucus son of Epicydes, it is more profitable now
Alcibiades 1
A Spartan king, father 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.
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.
And Leotychides said:
It is I, then, who should be king.
Nay, but my mother, who knows far better than he did, says even to this day that I am.