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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Legendary Spartan king who gave his name to the Agiad royal house of SPARTA, which (like the Eurypontids) claimed descent from HERACLES. Herodotus mentions Agis in the GENEALOGY he provides for LEONIDAS before the Battle of THERMOPYLAE (7.204). In the fourth and third centuries BCE the name Agis occurs with kings from the Eurypontid royal house as well.

SEE ALSO: Agesilaus; Echestratus; Euryp(h)on; Eurysthenes; Heracleidae