Agesipolis III
Ἀγησίπολις
King of Sparta
Reign219–215 BC
PredecessorCleomenes III
Successornone
Died183 BC
DynastyAgiad
FatherAgesipolis

Agesipolis III (Greek: Ἀγησίπολις; died 183 BC) was the 32nd and last of the kings of the Agiad dynasty in ancient Sparta.[1]

Agesipolis was the son of another Agesipolis and grandson of Cleombrotus II and Chilonis, daughter of Leonidas II and Cratesiclea. After the death of Cleomenes III he was elected king while still a minor, and placed under the dubious guardianship of an uncle named Cleomenes.[2] Agesipolis was, however, soon deposed by his colleague Lycurgus. In 195 BC, he was at the head of the Lacedaemonian exiles, who joined Titus Quinctius Flamininus in his attack upon Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon (see War against Nabis).[3] Agesipolis was a member of an embassy sent about 183 to Rome by the Lacedaemonian exiles, and, with his companions, was intercepted by pirates and killed.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agesipolis III", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 71
  2. ^ Polybius, iv. 35
  3. ^ Livy, xxxiv. 26
  4. ^ Polybius, xxiv. 11

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agesipolis III". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Regnal titles Preceded byCleomenes III Agiad King of Sparta 219–215 BC Vacant
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