Agesilaus I

Agesilaus I

Agesilaus I (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγησίλαος), son of Doryssus, was the sixth king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus.Citation | last = Clough | first = Arthur Hugh | author-link = Arthur Hugh Clough | contribution = Agesilaus I | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 69 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0078.html ] According to Apollodorus, reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC. Pausanias makes his reign a short one, but contemporary with the legislation of Lycurgus. [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 2. § 3] [Clinton, "Fasti", i. p. 335]

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