Kings of Sparta
Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. It was unique among Greek city-states in that it maintained its Kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had two kings simultaneously, coming from two separate lines. According to tradition, the two lines (the Agiads and Eurypontids) descended from the twins Eurysthenes (the Agiads) and Procles the descendants of Heracles who supposedly conquered Sparta two generations after the Trojan War. Although there are lists of the earlier purported Kings of Sparta, there is little evidence for the existence of any kings before the mid 6th Century BC or so
Agiad Kings
Eurypontid Kings
Following Cleomenes III's defeat at the Battle of Sellasia by Antigonus III Doson of Macedon and the Achaean League, the Spartan system began to break down.
The Achaean League annexed Sparta in 192 BC.
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Battle of Mantinea (418 BC) | Cleomenes I | Incumbents | List of Incumbents | List of ancient Greeks | Lists of Incumbents | Lists of incumbants | Lists of people by office held | Pausanias | Pausanias of Sparta | Pausanius | Sparta | Spartan | Tisamenus
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