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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 Greece. The
Agiads were
seniors to the
other royal house, the
Eurypontids, with whom they had an
enduring rivalry.
Their hypothetical founder was...
- two
kingships were both hereditary,
vested in the
Agiad dynasty and the
Eurypontid dynasty.
According to legend, the
respective hereditary lines of these...
- 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...
- Agis II (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 of Agesilaus...
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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...
- 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...
- Agiatis,
daughter of Gylippus, was king of
Sparta and a
member of the
Eurypontid dynasty. When his
father was
murdered he had just been born. Due to his...
- oligarchy. The
state was
ruled by two
hereditary kings of the
Agiad and
Eurypontid families, both
supposedly descendants of
Heracles and
equal in authority...
- Damaratos) was a king of
Sparta from
around 515 BC to 491 BC. The 15th of the
Eurypontid line, he was the
first son born to his father, King Ariston. As king,...
