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	Agesilaus II - LoveToKnow 1911
		AGESILAUS II., king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid family, was the son of Archidamus II.
		Agesilaus' success was largely due to Lysander, who hoped to find in him a willing tool for the furtherance of his political designs; in this hope, however, Lysander was disappointed, and the increasing power of Agesilaus soon led to his downfall.
		In 370 Agesilaus tried to restore Spartan prestige by an invasion of Mantinean territory, and his prudence and heroism saved Sparta when her enemies, led by Epaminondas, penetrated Laconia that same year, and again in 362 when they all but succeeded in seizing the city by a rapid and unexpected march.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Agesilaus_II (855 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Agesilaus by Plutarch
		Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas, that the profitableness of the act was chiefly to be considered; if it were for the advantage of the commonwealth, it was no matter whether it were done with or without authority.
		Agesilaus, perceiving all the other Greeks to give much attention to this discourse, and to be pleased with it, presently asked him whether he thought it a part of this justice and equality that the Boeotian towns should enjoy their independence.
		Agesilaus being now in years, gave over all military employments; but his son, Archidamus, having received help from Dionysius of Sicily, gave a great defeat to the Arcadians, in the fight known by the name of the Tearless Battle, in which there was a great slaughter of the enemy without the loss of one Spartan.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/agesilus.html (8479 words)

	Agesilaus II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II, king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid family, was the son of Archidamus II and Eupolia, and younger step-brother of Agis II, whom he succeeded about 401 BC.
		Agesilaus' success was largely due to Lysander, who hoped to find in him a willing tool for the furtherance of his political designs; in this hope, however, Lysander was disappointed, and the increasing power of Agesilaus soon led to his downfall.
		In 370 BC Agesilaus tried to restore Spartan prestige by an invasion of Mantinean territory, and his prudence and heroism saved Sparta when her enemies, led by Epaminondas, penetrated Laconia that same year, and again in 362 BC when they all but succeeded in seizing the city by a rapid and unexpected march.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agesilaus_II (975 words)

	Agesilaus - The Lame King of Sparta
		Agesilaus was born with one leg shorter than the other, but he made up for this handicap by the rest of himself, and never allowed his handicap to be an excuse for preferential treatment.
		Agesilaus and his army were about to fight a major battle, and bad news on top of the bad omen of the eclipse might have discouraged his men, so he pretended that the news was good.
		Agesilaus answered: "If all of their fields are full of crops next year, they will be more afraid of war." And, as Agesilaus had predicted, as soon as the Spartans came back the next year the Acarnanians made peace with the Achaeans on liberal terms.
	www.e-classics.com /AGESILAUS.html (6462 words)

	Agesilaus (c. 444 - 360 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agesilaus was born into the Eurypontid house (one of the two royal families of Sparta) and was the son of King Archidamus II.
		Agesilaus was recalled to fight in Greece (394), but he had been unable to prevent the formation of the huge Persian fleet that, after his departure, overwhelmingly defeated the Spartan navy at Cnidus.
		Agesilaus used this clause as an excuse to force the dissolution of Thebes's Boeotian League.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/agesilaus.html (383 words)

	Agesilaus - Chapter I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agesilaus was still a youth[5] when he obtained the kingdom, and he was still but a novice in his office when the news came that the king of Persia was collecting a mighty armament by sea and land for the invasion of Hellas.
		Agesilaus, aware how matters were going, ordered his cavalry to the rescue, and the Persians on their side, seeing the enemy's supports approaching, collected and formed up in line to receive them with the serried squadrons of their cavalry.
		And now Agesilaus, conscious that his enemy's infantry had not as yet arrived, whilst on his side no element in his preparation was lacking, felt that the moment was come to join battle if he could.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/Agesilaus/Chap1.html (2549 words)

	Agesilaus Page 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agesilaus had intelligence sent him by Euthynus, the Thespian, as Callisthenes says, but Xenophon says by a Cretan; and immediately dispatched a horseman to Lacedaemon, to apprise them of it, and to let them know that he was hastening to them.
		But Agesilaus valued not other men's discourses; he thought no public employment dishonorable; the ignoblest thing in his esteem, was for a man to sit idle and useless at home, waiting for his death to come and take him.
		Agesilaus, finding himself mistrusted, took it very ill, and was full of indignation, yet was ashamed to change sides back again, or to go away without effecting anything, so that he was forced to follow Nectanabis into the town.
	www.inspirationalspeakers.us /books/Plutarch/C44P11.shtml (1599 words)

	Agesilaus of Sparta
		When Agesilaus was marching to the north again, he received new instructions from the Spartan government: he had to sail to and attack Caria -which was suffering from the change of satrap- and continue to the east, to Cilicia.
		Agesilaus decided on a march to the interior of Asia along the Royal road.
		Therefore, Agesilaus again became a mercenary leader, this time siding with the Egyptian king Teos, who was preparing an attack on the Persian territories in Syria.
	www.livius.org /ag-ai/agesilaus/agesilaus.htm (2212 words)

	Agesilaus, II Biography / Biography of Agesilaus, II Biography Biography
		Agesilaus was not in the direct line of succession after his elder brother King Agis II died, but the powerful military commander Lysander contrived to have Agis's son disqualified as a bastard fathered by Alcibiades and engineered Agesilaus's election as king about 399.
		Agesilaus was recalled from the field and marched his army homeward.
		Agesilaus thus became in effect sole king, and he dominated the politics of Sparta until his death.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-agesilaus-ii (630 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman
		Agesilaus was wise enough to court favor with both the Ephors [159] and the Elders; he asked their advice on every point, and was always ready to go to them when they needed him.
		Agesilaus consented, and called an assembly of the people, before whom he agreed to undertake the war on condition that they would supply him with thirty Spartans for captains and counsellors, two thousand chosen men of the newly-freed Helots, and six thousand of the allies.
		Agesilaus received it, and was so well pleased with the youth that he stripped a horse near by of its magnificent trappings and presented them in return.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=kaufman&book=plutarch&story=agesilaus (2941 words)

	Xenophon : Agesilaus : I
		To write the praises of Agesilaus in language equalling his virtue and renown is, I know, no easy task; yet must it be essayed; since it were but an ill requital of pre-eminence, that, on the ground of his perfection, a good man should forfeit the tribute even of imperfect praise.
		Agesilaus was still a youth when he obtained the kingdom, and he was still but a novice in his office when the news came that the king of Persia was collecting a mighty armament by sea and land for the invasion of Hellas.
		Agesilaus, aware how matters were going, ordered his cavalry to the rescue, and the Persians on their side, seeing the enemy's supports approaching, collected and formed up in line to receive them with the serried squadrons of their cavalry.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.1805/sec.2 (2517 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But Agesilaus with a beaming face bade the envoys of Tissaphernes inform their master that he was profoundly grateful to him for his perjury, by which he had gained the hostility of the gods for himself and had made them allies of the Greeks.
		Agesilaus, noticing the errors into which both sides were falling, now sent round his own escort of stalwart horsemen, with orders to bid the others to charge at full speed, and to do the same themselves, and not to give the enemy a chance of rallying.
		Agesilaus had such reverence for religion, that even his enemies considered his oaths and his treaties more to be relied on than their own friendship with one another: for there were times when they shrank from meeting together, and yet would place themselves in the power of Agesilaus.
	icecubetopper.com /Authors/Xenophon/XEN_AGES.TXT (7107 words)

	Agesilaus II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		B.C. Agesilaus went there to oppose the Persian satraps Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus by attacking them.
		Agesilaus took Spartan mercenaries to Asia Minor and Egypt and died on the way back.
		His rule had seen the ruin of Sparta, although he was lauded by his contemporaries, notably Xenophon.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ag/Agesilau.html (223 words)

	Pompey and Agesilaus Compared by Plutarch
		But Agesilaus appears to have obtained his kingdom, not without offence both towards gods and towards men, towards these, by procuring judgment of bastardy against Leotychides, whom his brother had declared his lawful son, and towards those, by putting a false gloss upon the oracle, and eluding its sentence against his lameness.
		But Agesilaus, to gratify the fondness of his son, saved the life of Sphodrias by a sort of violence, when he deserved death for the wrong he had done to the Athenians; and when Phoebidas treacherously broke the peace with Thebes, zealously abetted him for the sake, it was clear, of the unjust act itself.
		For Agesilaus never deserted his city, though it was besieged by an army of seventy thousand men, when there were very few soldiers within to defend it, and those had been defeated too, but a little before, at the battle of Leuctra.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Pompey_and_Agesilaus_Compared (627 words)

	Agesilaus' Asiatic Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Agesilaus saw the rout he sent out from his army the light-armed and the cavalry to pursue them; and these joined the men from the ambush in pressing on the barbarians.
		Agesilaus remained in the area for three days, in which he returned the enemies' bodies under a truce, erected a trophy and ravaged all the land; he then led the army back into Greater Phrygia.
		Agesilaus formed his soldiers into a square and clung to the foothills of Mt. Sipylus, awaiting a favorable opportunity to attack the enemy.
	luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/aa/source01.htm (661 words)

	Agesilaus II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 396 BC Agesilaus was sent to Asia with a force of 2000 Neodamodes (enfranchized Helots) and 6000 allies to secure the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek cities against a (The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) Persian attack.
		An armistice was concluded between Tithraustes and Agesilaus, who left the southern satrapy and again invaded (An ancient country in western and central Asia Minor) Phrygia, which he ravaged until the following spring.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about battle of Mantinea (362 BC)) battle of Mantinea (362 BC), in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ag/agesilaus_ii1.htm (906 words)

	Battle of Coronea (394 BC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Once Agesilaus was in Asia, he gathered an unspecified number of troops from Ionia, Aeolis, and the Hellespont and recruited a mercenary cavalry force.
		Agesilaus concealed the news of the defeat of the Spartan fleet and deceived them into believing that Peisander had died victorious over the Persian/Greek fleet under Pharnabazus and Conon, near Cnidus.
		Agesilaus had himself been wounded in the battle and had to be carried back to the phalanx.
	www.fanaticus.org /dba/battles/coronea.html (1657 words)

	Agesilaus II, King of Sparta: Part 1/3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agesilaus was the younger son of Archidamus, one of the two kings of Sparta.
		Agesilaus did have the support, however, of Lysander, the Spartan general who had defeated Athens (404), thus putting an end to a long drawn-out war and establishing Sparta as the undisputed leading city-state of Greece.
		Agesilaus replied with another ruse, pretending that he was going to attack Caria, until Tissaphernes gathered his troops there, at which point Agesilaus’ real target, Phrygia, became apparent.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/18302/110126 (464 words)

	Xenophon : Agesilaus : II
		He crossed the Hellespont and made his way through the very tribes traversed by the Persian with his multitudinous equipment in former days, and the march which cost the barbarian a year was accomplished by Agesilaus in less than a single month.
		When the enemy, being desirous of peace, sent an embassy, it was Agesilaus who spoke against the peace, until he had forced the states of Corinth and of Thebes to welcome back those of them who, for Lacedaemon's sake, had suffered banishment.
		And now the weight of, may be, fourscore years was laid upon him, when it came under his observation that the king of Egypt, with his hosts of foot and horse and stores of wealth, had set his heart on a war with Persia.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.8/bookid.1805/sec.3 (2327 words)

	Agesilaus II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		B.C. Agesilaus went there to oppose the Persian satraps Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus by attacking them.
		Agesilaus took Spartan mercenaries to Asia Minor and Egypt and died on the way back.
		His rule had seen the ruin of Sparta, although he was lauded by his contemporaries, notably Xenophon.
	www.bartelby.com /65/ag/Agesilau.html (223 words)

	Agesilaus II, King of Sparta: Part 2/3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He also set about increasing his power and influence in Sparta by appointing his opponents to positions they were unsuited to, and then coming to their defence when they were put on trial, thus winning them over to become his supporters.
		While he was in Corinth Agesilaus received news of a major defeat of a Spartan division by Athenian forces under Iphicrates.
		Agesilaus collected the survivors and took them back with him to Sparta in a series of night marches (390).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/18302/110142 (494 words)

	Comparison Of Pompey And Agesilaus Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thus having drawn out the history of the lives of Agesilaus and Pompey, the next thing is to compare them; and in order to this, to take a cursory view, and bring together the points in which they chiefly disagree; which are these.
		But Agesilaus appears to have obtained his kingdom, not without offense both towards gods and towards men, towards these, by procuring judgment of bastardy against Leotychides, whom his brother had declared his lawful son, and towards those, by putting a false gloss upon the oracle, and eluding its sentence against his lameness.
		But Agesilaus, to gratify the fondness of his son, saved the life of Sphodrias by a sort of violence, when he deserved death for the wrong he had done to the Athenians; and when Phoebidas treacherously broke the peace with Thebes, zealously abetted him for the sake, it was clear, of the unjust act itself.
	www.inspirationalspeakers.us /books/Plutarch/C46P1.shtml (520 words)

	Xenophon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Agesilaus, the Spartan, was commanding the Lacedaemonian forces in Asia against the Persians in 396, and Xenophon was with him at least during part of the campaign.
		When Agesilaus was recalled (394), Xenophon accompanied him, and he was on the side of the Lacedaemonians in the battle which they fought at Coronea (394) against the Athenians.
		The Agesilaus is a panegyric on Agesilaus II, king of Sparta, the friend of Xenophon.
	www.iep.utm.edu /x/xenophon.htm (1787 words)

	Agesilaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lastly, Pharnabazus[4] himself came and held colloquy with Agesilaus, and openly agreed that if he were not himself appointed general-in-chief of the royal forces he would revolt from the king.
		Of so intrinsic a value to all, and not least to a general in the field, is the proud possession of an honest and God-fearing character, known and recognised.
		During the whole of his career no charge of fraudulent dealing was ever lodged against Agesilaus; against which set the many-voiced acknowledgmment of countless benefits received from him.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/xenophonetext98agsls10/26.html (231 words)

	AGESILAUS II - Online Information article about AGESILAUS II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Iphicrates, neutralized these successes, and Agesilaus returned to Sparta.
		Antalcidas, which was warmly supported by Agesilaus, put an end to hostilities.
		Haupt, Agesilaus in Asien (1874); E. von Stern, Geschichte der spartanischen and thebanischen Hegemonie (1884).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/AGESILAUS_II.html (1196 words)

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