{"slug": "agesilaus-ii", "label": "Agesilaus II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agesilaus_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271850", "qid": "Q271850", "description": "king of Sparta", "entries": 18, "years": 16, "span": [-400, -359], "span_label": ["401 BCE", "360 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 11}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 15}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "epaminondas", "label": "Epaminondas", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "arcadia-ancient-region", "label": "Arcadia (ancient region)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "artaxerxes-ii", "label": "Artaxerxes II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lydia", "label": "Lydia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "susa", "label": "Susa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -400, "year_label": "401 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Agesilaus II becomes king of Sparta on the death of his stepbrother Agis II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242237123#Greece", "title": "401 BC", "revid": 1242237123, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -398, "year_label": "399 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan admiral, Lysander, tries to effect a political revolution in Sparta by suggesting that the king should not automatically be given the leadership of the army. He also suggests that the position of king should be elective. However, he is unsuccessful in achieving these reforms, and earns the disfavour of King Agesilaus II of Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262065705#Greece", "title": "399 BC", "revid": 1262065705, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -396, "year_label": "397 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Called on by the Ionians to assist them against the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta launches an ambitious campaign in Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698502#Greece", "title": "397 BC", "revid": 1352698502, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, campaigns successfully in Asia Minor against the Persian satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes and inflicts a major defeat on Tissaphernes at Sardis. Agesilaus agrees to a three months' truce with the Persians under Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria. Negotiations conducted during that time prove fruitless, and on its termination, Agesilaus raids Phrygia, where he easily captures an immense amount of booty, since Tissaphernes has concentrated his troops in Caria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Greece", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -394, "year_label": "395 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After spending the winter in organizing a cavalry force, Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, makes a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370496371#Persian_Empire", "title": "395 BC", "revid": 1370496371, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -393, "year_label": "394 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The two sides' armies meet each other again at Coronea, in Theban territory in the Battle of Coronea. Once more, the Spartans under King Agesilaus II are successful in battle. After this victory, Agesilaus sails with his army across the Gulf of Corinth and returns to Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172908#Greece", "title": "394 BC", "revid": 1354172908, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -388, "year_label": "389 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A Spartan expeditionary force under King Agesilaus II crosses the Gulf of Corinth to attack Acarnania, an ally of the anti-Spartan coalition. Agesilaus is eventually able to draw them into a pitched battle, in which the Acarnanians are routed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292700126#Greece", "title": "389 BC", "revid": 1292700126, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Concerned about the revival of Athenian imperialist ambitions, the Persian King Artaxerxes II and King Agesilaus II of Sparta enter into an alliance. Sparta also seeks and gains the support of Dionysius I of Syracuse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Greece", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -381, "year_label": "382 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In punishment for his unauthorized action in the previous year of taking over Thebes, Phoebidas is relieved of his command, but the Spartans continue to hold Thebes. The Spartan king Agesilaus II argues against punishing Phoebidas, on the grounds that his actions had benefited Sparta, and this was the only standard against which he ought to be judged.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363328792#Greece", "title": "382 BC", "revid": 1363328792, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -376, "year_label": "377 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Peace of Antalcidas (387 BC), includes a clause guaranteeing the Greek cities their independence. The Spartan King Agesilaus II uses this clause as an excuse to force the dissolution of Thebes' Boeotian League. In two sieges, he reduces Thebes to near starvation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328334796#Greece", "title": "377 BC", "revid": 1328334796, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -370, "year_label": "371 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A fresh peace congress is summoned at Sparta. At the peace conference, the Spartan King Agesilaus II (with the support of Athens) refuses to allow the Thebans to sign the treaty on behalf of all Boeotia. The Theban statesman Epaminondas, who is boeotarch (one of the five magistrates of the Boeotian federation), maintains Thebes' position, even when it leads to the exclusion of Thebes from the peace treaty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1282391642#Greece", "title": "371 BC", "revid": 1282391642, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -369, "year_label": "370 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartans under King Agesilaus II invade Arcadia. After appealing in vain to the Athenians for help, Arcadia turns to the Thebans. Epaminondas of Thebes arrives with an army, finds that the Spartans have retired and follows them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1274974189#Greece", "title": "370 BC", "revid": 1274974189, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Archidamus III, son of Agesilaus II of Sparta, commands a Spartan army which scores a victory over the Arcadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Greece", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -361, "year_label": "362 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Agesilaus II of Sparta arrives with 1,000 men to assist Egypt in its fight with Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367114722#Egypt", "title": "362 BC", "revid": 1367114722, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -360, "year_label": "361 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Egyptians under their King Teos and the Spartans under King Agesilaus II, with some Athenian mercenaries under their general Chabrias, set out to attack the Persian King's Phoenician cities. However, they have to return almost at once due to revolts back in Egypt. Subsequently, Agesilaus II quarrels with the Egyptian king and joins a revolt against him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1226326183#Egypt", "title": "361 BC", "revid": 1226326183, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -359, "year_label": "360 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With the help of King Agesilaus II of Sparta, Nectanebo II deposes Teos and becomes king of Egypt. Teos flees to Susa and makes peace with the Persians. Nectanebo II pays the Spartans 230 talents for their help.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1141894957#Egypt", "title": "360 BC", "revid": 1141894957, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -359, "year_label": "360 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "The King of Sparta, Agesilaus II, dies at Cyrene, Cyrenaica, on his way home to Greece from Egypt. He is succeeded by his son Archidamus III as Eurypontid king of Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1141894957#Greece", "title": "360 BC", "revid": 1141894957, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -359, "year_label": "360 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Agesilaus II, Eurypontid king of Sparta (b. c.444 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1141894957#Deaths", "title": "360 BC", "revid": 1141894957, "section": "Deaths"}}]}