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Agis I (Gr. Ἄγις) was a legendary king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. He was the son of Eurysthenes, first monarch of this dynasty,^[1] which ruled the city along with the Eurypontids. In Greek mythology, Eurysthenes (Εὐρυσθένης was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. His genealogy was traced through Aristodemus, Aristomachus, Cleodaeus and Hyllus all the way to Heracles,^[2] and he belongs to mythology rather than to history. Genealogy (from Greek: el γενεά el-Latn genea, "descent" and el λόγος el-Latn logos, "knowledge" is the study of In Greek mythology, Aristodemus was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Temenus. In Greek mythology, Aristomachus was one of the Heracleidae, a great-grandson of Heracles. In Greek mythology, Cleodaeus was one of the Heracleidae, a grandson of Heracles. Hyllus is also a genus of Jumping spiders. In Greek mythology, Hyllus (also Hyllas or Hylles) was In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera " or Tradition ascribed to him the capture of the maritime town of Helos, which resisted his attempt to curtail its guaranteed rights (which had originally been granted by Eurysthenes). Elos (Greek Έλος is a village and a municipality in Greece near Skala and Vlachioti. In Greek mythology, Eurysthenes (Εὐρυσθένης was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus 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 called helots. The helots (in Classical Greek / Heílôtes) were an unfree population group that formed the ^[3] To his reign was referred the colony which went to Crete under Pollis and Delphus. Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the ^[4]

According to Eusebius he reigned only one year;^[5] according to Apollodorus, as it appears, about 31 years.

References

^ Pausanias, iii, 2. Pausanias ( Greek:) was a Greek traveller and Geographer of the 2nd century CE, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus 1
^ Herodotus 7, 204
^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), “Agis (1)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849 originally published 1844 under a slightly different title is an Encyclopedia / Biographical dictionary 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. Little Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner James Brown. 71-72
^ Conon. Narr. 36
^ Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon i. The Chronicon or Chronicle (Greek Pantodape historia, " Universal History " was a work in two books by Eusebius of Caesarea p. 166

Preceded by Eurysthenes	Agiad King of Sparta c. 930 BC-c. 900 BC	Succeeded by Echestratus

In Greek mythology, Eurysthenes (Εὐρυσθένης was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. Events and trends 935 BC — Death of Zhou gong wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

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