{"slug": "agiad-dynasty", "label": "Agiad dynasty", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agiad_dynasty", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q393652", "qid": "Q393652", "description": "royal spartan dynasty", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-408, -227], "span_label": ["409 BCE", "228 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Agiad"], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "agesilaus-ii", "label": "Agesilaus II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arcadia-region", "label": "Arcadia (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "epaminondas", "label": "Epaminondas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mantinea", "label": "Mantinea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tegea", "label": "Tegea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aetolia", "label": "Aetolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aratus-of-sicyon", "label": "Aratus of Sicyon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eurypontid", "label": "Eurypontid", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -408, "year_label": "409 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as Agiad king of Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353486457#Greece", "title": "409 BC", "revid": 1353486457, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -402, "year_label": "403 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Piraeus is fought between Athenian exiles, who have defeated the government of the Thirty Tyrants and occupied Piraeus, and a Spartan force sent to combat them. In the battle, the Spartans narrowly defeat the exiles, with both sides suffering large numbers of casualties. After the battle, the Agiad King of Sparta, Pausanias arranges a settlement between the two parties which allows the reunification of Athens and Piraeus, and the re-establishment of democratic government in Athens. The remaining oligarchic Thirty Tyrants are allowed to flee to Eleusis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246106639#Greece", "title": "403 BC", "revid": 1246106639, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -369, "year_label": "370 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Agesipolis II, Agiad king of Sparta", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1274974189#Deaths", "title": "370 BC", "revid": 1274974189, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -368, "year_label": "369 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes II succeeds his brother Agesipolis II as Agiad king of Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1256893468#Greece", "title": "369 BC", "revid": 1256893468, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -361, "year_label": "362 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The outbreak of civil war in the Arcadian league leads to Mantinea fighting alongside Sparta and Athens, while Tegea and other members of the league side with Thebes. The Theban general, Epaminondas leads the large allied army into the Peloponnesus, he is met by the Spartans (led by the Agiad Spartan king Agesilaus), Mantineans, Athenians, and their allies in the Battle of Mantinea. In the battle, Epaminondas is victorious, but is killed. His dying command to make peace with the enemy is followed by all sides and a general peace is established in Greece. The period of Theban domination of Greece comes to an end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367114722#Greece", "title": "362 BC", "revid": 1367114722, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -240, "year_label": "241 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Eurypontid King of Sparta, Agis IV, is called away from Sparta when Aratus of Sicyon, temporarily Sparta's ally, requests Agis' aid in his war against the Aetolians. Upon his return, Agis finds that his supporters are discontented with the rule of his uncle, Agesilaus, and are disillusioned by the delay in implementing Agis IV's reforms. As a result, the Agiad king of Sparta, Leonidas II, gains power, supported by mercenaries. Rather than engage in a war with Leonidas, Agis takes sanctuary in a temple, but is enticed out, summarily tried and then executed, along with his mother and grandmother.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1304843215#Greece", "title": "241 BC", "revid": 1304843215, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -227, "year_label": "228 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Archidamus V, brother of the murdered Spartan King Agis IV, is called back to Sparta by the Agiad King Cleomenes III, who has no counterpart on the throne by then. However, Archidamus V is assassinated shortly after returning.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326026286#Greece", "title": "228 BC", "revid": 1326026286, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}