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AGESILAUS II

əjĕˌsĭlāˈəs, c.444–360 b.c., king of Sparta. After the death of Agis I (398? b.c.), he was brought to power by Lysander, whom he promptly ignored. After the Peloponnesian War the Greek cities in Asia Minor had not been ceded to Persia despite Sparta's promises, and in 396 b.c. Agesilaus went there to oppose the Persian satraps Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus by attacking them. He managed to rout Tissaphernes, but Persian naval power drove him back to Greece, where he won (394 b.c.) a hollow victory over the Thebans and their allies at Coronea, but he could not reestablish Spartan hegemony. By the King's Peace (or Peace of Antalcidas) in 386 b.c., the cities of Asia Minor were ceded to Persia. Thebes and Athens entered an alliance against Sparta, and war followed. When Agesilaus deliberately excluded Thebes from the peace talks, Thebes renewed the war and the Theban general Epaminondas won (371 b.c.) a resounding victory at Leuctra. Sparta did not recover. Agesilaus took Spartan mercenaries to Asia Minor and Egypt and died on the way back. His rule had seen the ruin of Sparta, although he was lauded by his contemporaries, notably Xenophon.

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A Commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos: Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character
Book by D. R. Shipley; University of Oxford, 1997
Subjects:	Agesilaus--Ii--King Of Sparta, Biography As A Literary Form, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C--Historiography, Greece--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Plutarch--Agesilaus, Plutarch--Technique, Sparta (Extinct City)--Historiography, Sparta (Extinct City)--History
...Includes bibliographical references. 1. Plutarch. Agesilaus. 2. Agesilaus II, King of Sparta. 3. Greece--History--Spartan...form. 9. Plutarch--Technique. I. Plutarch. Agesilaus. II. Title. PS4369.A43S48 1997 938.906092-dc21...

Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects:	World History
AGESILAUS II Born: c. 444 B.C.; Sparta Died...illustrious Greek leader of his day, Agesilaus took Sparta to its peak of influence...the aging Spartan king Archidamus II, gave birth to Agesilaus in 444, her sons prospects must have...

From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects:	History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...Southern Italy , 1993. Andrew G. Traver AGESILAUS II (c. 443-358 B.C.) Agesilaus II was a Spartan king of the Eurypontid line...Although the son of a Spartan king (Archidamus II), Agesilaus was never expected to gain the throne at...

Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Book by Daniel Ogden; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects:	Greece--Social Conditions--To 146 B.C, Illegitimacy--Greece--History
...to them, as it was lacking to amphimetric brothers. AGESILAUS II AND LEOTYCHIDAS There was a third royal bastardy dispute between Leotychidas, son of Agis, and Agesilaus II, brother of Agis, who succeeded to the Eurypontid...

Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
Book by Alba Amoia, Bettina L.Knapp; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects:	Authors--Biography, Literature--Bio-Bibliography, Multiculturalism In Literature
...and then by his successor, King Agesilaus II, both warring for the liberation...he had become friends with King Agesilaus II, whose antidemocratic, anti-Athenian politics he shared. Agesilaus rewarded Xenophon for faithful...

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Xenophon's (The Education of Cyrus) and Ideal Leadership Lessons for Modern Public Administration
Journal article by Jennifer O'Flannery; Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 27, 2003
Subjects:	Historical analysis, Leadership, Leadership training, Persia, Philosophy, Public sector, Studies, Xenophon (431-352 BC)
...with the Spartans, he was recognized by King of Sparta, Agesilaus II, and served in his court for two years. His allegiance...take control of Persia from his brother, King Antaxerxes II and was killed along with his generals in the battle of...

War, Class, and Justice in Plato's Republic
Journal article by Michael S. Kochin; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53, 1999
Subjects:	Greek literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Republic (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War and society--Analysis
...our guardians, Socrates says.(30) II Socratic Realpolitik. When the purgation...This is paralleled almost exactly by Agesilaus in Xenophons encomium, who says, refusing...cities, but to moderate them" (Life of Agesilaus 7.6. See also Pritchett, Greek State...

The Historian Ephorus: His Selection of Sources*
Journal article by Victor Parker; Antichthon, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects:	Books, Poetry, Poets
...bad source on a case by case basis.24 II. Ephorus and the Persian Wars For the...style. When we compare his account of Agesilaus campaigns in Asia Minor with Xenophons...recounts much more colourful material about Agesilaus high-level and presumably private diplomatic...

Greek Hoplites, Warrior Culture, and Indirect Bias
Journal article by W.G. Runciman; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects:	Greece--History, Military art and science--History, Warfare, Primitive--Research
...without any erotic implication (Cyropaedia, II.1.29, III.3.10, VI.4.14...any whose bodies were missing (Thucydides II.34.3-4), and Plutarch (Nicias 6...monuments in their own homeland (Thucydides II.43.3), seems in effect to be recognizing...

Laboratory of Asymmetry: the 2006 Lebanon War and the Evolution of Iranian Ground Tactics
Journal article by Marc Lindemann; Military Review, Vol. 90, 2010
Subjects:	Armed forces, Iraq War-2003, Suicide bombings
...military exercises, including Great Prophet II in November 2006 and Eqtedar-85 in February...and littoral operations, Great Prophet II involved about 20,000 Basij forces as...as a guiding factor in the Great Prophet II exercises. In a nod toward Hezbollahs use...

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Child's Play in Athens
Magazine article by Lesley Beaumont; History Today, Vol. 44, August 1994
Subjects:	Athens, Greece--History, Games--History, Political socialization--Greece
...this in connection with King Agesilaus of Sparta: It is a fact also that Agesilaus was exces- sively fond of...be a father of children. (Agesilaus XXV, 5) Real animals also...to their ears. (Republic II.378D-E). He therefore...

Why the West Has Won: Freedom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; The American Spectator, Vol. 34, November 2001
Subjects:	Civilization, Democracy, Freedoms, Military history, War
...brutal European intruders on the rest of the worlds landscapes:Agesilaus and his Spartans, Chares the mercenary captain, Alexander...certainty. We in the West still shudder at the carnage of World War II, largely because it took the lives of so many Westerners...

The Soul of Plutarchos
Magazine article by Brian Doyle; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Summer 2000
Subjects:	Authors, Greek--Behavior, Greek writers--Behavior, Plutarch--Behavior
...into battle. He leads the Romans against the rebel Aristobulus II and his Jewish army. He conquers Egypt, winning "a great...curious," observes Plutarch meticulously). The Spartan king Agesilaus, who was "said to have been a little man, of a contemptible...

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Agesilaus II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGESILAUS II je sila s, c.444 360 b.c., king...Spartas promises, and in 396 b.c. Agesilaus went there to oppose the Persian satraps...against Sparta, and war followed. When Agesilaus deliberately excluded Thebes from the...

Xenophon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Spartans, was in the service of Sparta. He accompanied Agesilaus II on the campaign that ended (394 b.c.) in victory...contrast to Platos philosophical portrait; a eulogy of Agesilaus; the Hieron, a dialogue on despotism, named after...

Sparta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cleomenes I, Leonidas, and Agis II), but all were held in check. There...Athens the dominant Spartans, led by Agesilaus II , were involved in a war with Persia...b.c.) a treaty with Artaxerxes II by which Sparta surrendered the Greek...

Tissaphernes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Younger , he rebuilt his fortunes by siding with Artaxerxes II and helping him to defeat Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa...cities, he was involved in war with the Spartans, and Agesilaus II defeated him in 395. He was removed from office and assassinated...

Epaminondas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...refused to surrender his claim to represent all Boeotia. Agesilaus II of Sparta therefore excluded Thebes from the peace. In...His brilliant tactics in war were studied by both Philip II and Alexander the Great...

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