- Agis I
Agis I (Gr. polytonic|Ἄγις) was a legendary king of
Sparta andeponym of theAgiad dynasty . He was the son ofEurysthenes , first monarch of this dynasty, [Pausanias, iii, 2.1] which ruled the city along with theEurypontid s. Hisgenealogy was traced throughAristodemus ,Aristomachus ,Cleodaeus andHyllus all the way toHeracles , [Herodotus 7, 204] and he belongs to mythology rather than to history. Tradition ascribed to him the capture of the maritime town ofHelos , which resisted his attempt to curtail its guaranteed rights (which had originally been granted byEurysthenes ). The inhabitants of the town attempted to shake off the yoke, but they were subdued, and gave rise and name to the Spartan class of serfs calledhelots .Citation | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | author-link = | contribution = Agis (1) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 71-72 | publisher =Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0080.html ] To his reign was referred the colony which went toCrete under Pollis and Delphus. [Conon. "Narr." 36]According to Eusebius he reigned only one year; [
Eusebius of Caesarea , "Chronicon" i. p. 166] according toApollodorus , as it appears, about 31 years.References
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