- ****enistic era and the
Eurypontids reached royal status much
later than the
Agiads. As a result, in
order to
balance the two
royal lines,
several names were...
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coming from two
separate lines.
According to tradition, the two lines, the
Agiads (Ἀγιάδαι, Agiadai) and
Eurypontids (Εὐρυποντίδαι, Eurypontidai), were respectively...
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Later the
Eurypontids extended their ancestry to make them as old as the
Agiads, but the
diarchy was
likely the
result of the
synoecism of Sparta, which...
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handful of
other classical sources.
Pausanias was from the
royal house of the
Agiads.
Every male
Spartan citizen earned their citizenship by
dedicating their...
-
their son and grandson, for
which reason the two
lines were
called the
Agiads and the Eurypontids. The
story of the
double kingship of
Sparta begins with...
- Mythology/Pleistarchus 1. Jona
Lendering (2006-03-31). "Eurypontids and
Agiads". Livius.org.
Archived from the
original on 2005-11-18.
Retrieved 2011-07-24...
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their son and grandson, for
which reason the two
lines were
called the
Agiads and the Eurypontids.
After the
death of
Aristodemus the
Spartans consulted...
-
historical period,
several dynasties claimed descent from Heracles, such as the
Agiads and
Eurypontids of Sparta, or the
Temenids of Macedonia. Heracles, whom...
- Sparta. He was the son of king
Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the
Agiad dynasty, a
Spartan royal house which claimed descent from the
mythical demigod...
- also excluded. The
firstborn sons of the
ruling houses,
Eurypontid and
Agiad, were exempted; a few
trophimoi (very well-connected
metics or perioeci)...
