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According to tradition, the two lines, the
Agiads (Ἀγιάδαι, Agiadai) and
Eurypontids (Εὐρυποντίδαι, Eurypontidai), were
respectively descended from the twins...
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Ancient Gr**** city-state of Sparta. They
ruled jointly along with the
Eurypontid dynasty,
possibly from the 8th
century BC onwards,
being the
senior of...
- two
kingships were both hereditary,
vested in the
Agiad dynasty and the
Eurypontid dynasty.
According to legend, the
respective hereditary lines of these...
- Agis II (Ancient Gr****: Ἄγις; died c. 399 BC) was the 18th
Eurypontid king of Sparta, the
eldest son of
Archidamus II by his
first wife, and half-brother...
- was the
father of Soos and the
grandfather of Eurypon,
founder of the
Eurypontid dynasty of the
Kings of Sparta. The
title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate...
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around 545 BC,
Leotychidas was a
descendant of the
Royal House of the
Eurypontids (through Menamus, Agesilaus, Hippocratides, Leotychides, Anaxilaus, Archidamos...
- by a
Spartan king in
exile who was
present in
Persia at the time, the
Eurypontid king Demaratus, who also
argued that the
eldest son did not universally...
- 360–338) and
grandson of
Agesilaus II (r. 400–360) who
belonged to the
Eurypontid dynasty, one of the two
royal families of
Sparta (the
other being the...
- from the
Agiad dynasty and an
obscure Lycurgus as
representative of the
Eurypontid dynasty.
According to the
historian Polybius,
Lycurgus was not in fact...
- BC – 241 BC), the
elder son of
Eudamidas II, was the 25th king of the
Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta.
Posterity has
reckoned him an
idealistic but impractical...
