Agesilaus I

Agesilaus I
King of Sparta
Reignc. 820 – 790 BC
PredecessorDoryssus
SuccessorArchelaus of Sparta

Agesilaus I (/əˌdʒɛsəˈleɪəs/; Greek: Ἀγησίλαος), son of Doryssus, was the 6th king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus.[1] According to Apollodorus of Athens, he reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC. Pausanias makes his reign a short one, but contemporary with the legislation of Lycurgus.[2][3] He was succeeded by his son Archelaus. His grandson was Teleclus.

  1. ^ Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867), "Agesilaus I", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 69
  2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 3
  3. ^ Osbert Henry Fynes-Clinton, Fasti hellenici, Vol. I, 1834, p. 335