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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

1) Legendary Spartan king, son of DORYSSUS, member of the Agiad royal house of SPARTA. Herodotus mentions Agesilaus (Hegesileōs in Herodotus’ IONIC DIALECT) in the GENEALOGY he provides for LEONIDAS before the Battle of THERMOPYLAE (7.204). In the fourth century BCE the name occurs with a king from the Eurypontid royal house (Agesilaus II, r. 399–c. 360).

2) Son of HIPPOCRATIDES, member of the junior branch of the Eurypontid royal house at Sparta. This Agesilaus never ruled, though his grandson LEOTYCHIDES II supplanted DEMARATUS as king in 491 BCE Herodotus mentions him in his genealogy of Leotychides (8.131.2). Elsewhere (6.65.1) this Agesilaus is identified by the shortened form “Agis” ( Ἄγις) as the grandfather of Leotychides.

SEE ALSO: Agis son of Eurysthenes; Euryp(h)on; Hegesicles; Menares