A. I, eponymous hero of the Agiads, son of Eurysthenes and father of Echestratus, according to another version father of the legendary lawgiver Lycurgus (Hdt. 7,204; Paus. 3,2,1). The institution of the perioikia and of the Helots by him (Ephorus, FGrH 70 F 117) is historical fiction.
Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm (Bochum) and
Degani, Enzo (Bologna),
“Agis”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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