Agesilaus (disambiguation)
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Agesilaus can refer to:
- Agesilaus IAgesilaus IAgesilaus I , son of Doryssus, was the sixth king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus. 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. He was succeeded by his son...
(died 886 BC), 6th Agiad king of Sparta - Agesilaus IIAgesilaus IIAgesilaus II, or Agesilaos II was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, "as good as thought commander and king of all Greece," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his...
(444 BC–360 BC), 18th Eurypontid king of Sparta, brother of Agis II - Agesilaus (general), brother to Agis IIIAgis IIIAgis III , son of Archidamus III, was the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta.He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea...
, 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta - Agesilaus (statesman)Agesilaus (statesman)Agesilaus was a Spartan statesman, the uncle of Agis IV, and the father of Hippomedon. When Agis IV began his constitutional reforms in Sparta, Hippomedon entered warmly into the schemes of Agis, and was instrumental in gaining over Agesilaus to their support...
, uncle and advisor to Agis IV, king of Sparta - Agesilaus (historian), an ancient Greek historian
- Agesander (Hades)Agesander (Hades)Agesander or Agesilaus was an epithet of the Greek god Hades . The name derives from the Greek words agein and aner or Laos , describing Hades as the god who carries away all men....
, an epithet of the Greek god Hades, sometimes rendered as "Agesilaus" - Agesilaus (Xenophon)Agesilaus (Xenophon)Agesilaus is a minor work by Xenophon.The text summarizes the life of Spartan king Agesilaus II, whom Xenophon valued greatly, considering him as an unsurpassed example of all the civil and military virtues...
, biographical work about Agesilaus II written by Greek historian Xenophon