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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...
- The
Agiad dynasty was one of the two
royal families of Sparta, a
powerful city-state of
Ancient Greece. The
Agiads were
seniors to the
other royal house...
- 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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historical period,
several dynasties claimed descent from Heracles, such as the
Agiads and
Eurypontids of Sparta, or the
Temenids of Macedonia. Heracles, whom...
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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...
- citizens,
except for the
firstborn son in the
ruling houses,
Eurypontid and
Agiad. The word agōgē had
various meanings in
Ancient Gr**** and
comes from the...
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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...
- 480 BC) was a king of the Gr**** city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the
Agiad line, a
dynasty which claimed descent from the
mythical demigod Heracles...
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identified the
source of the
second version in a lost work
written by the
Agiad king
Pausanias after he had been
forced to
abdicate and go into
exile in...
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Pausanias (Gr****: Παυσανίας) was the
Agiad King of Sparta; the son of Pleistoanax. He
ruled Sparta from 445 BC to 427 BC and
again from 409 BC to 395...
