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Agesilaus II
Agesilaus II , c.444-360 BC, king of Sparta. After the death of Agis I (398? BC), he was brought to power by Lysander, whom he promptly ignored. After the Peloponnesian War the Greek cities in Asia Minor had not been ceded to Persia despite Sparta's promises, and in 396 BC Agesilaus went there to op... Read more
Callias
Callias d. c.370 BC, Athenian leader, one of the generals of the Peloponnesian War. In his old age Callias was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta with Callistratus to negotiate a peace treaty in 371 BC The treaty was ineffective, and friction between Epaminondas of Thebes and Agesilaus II of... Read more
Epaminondas
Epaminondas , d. 362 BC, Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As the Theban delegate to the peace conference of 371 BC he refused to surrender his claim to represent all Boeotia. Agesilaus II of Sparta therefore excluded Thebes f... Read more
Xenophon
Xenophon , c.430 BC-c.355 BC, Greek historian, b. Athens. He was one of the well-to-do young disciples of Socrates before leaving Athens to join the Greek force (the Ten Thousand) that was in the service of Cyrus the Younger of Persia. These troops served Cyrus at the disastrous battle of Cunaxa ... Read more
Lysander
Lysander , d. 395 BC, Spartan naval commander and statesman. Toward the end of the Peloponnesian War he was made admiral and built up the Spartan fleet so that it defeated (407 BC) the Athenians off Notium. Later he was responsible for the capture (405 BC) of the Athenian fleet at the mouth of the... Read more
Sparta
Sparta , city of ancient Greece, capital of Laconia, on the Eurotas (Evrótas) River in the Peloponnesus. Spartan Society Sparta's government was headed by two hereditary kings furnished by two families; they were titular leaders in battle and in religion. Some of these kings were ab... Read more

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Agesilaus II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Agesilaus II Agesilaus II (ca. 444-360 B.C.), a Spartan king and general, dominated...military might he made his state supreme in Greece by about 380 B.C. Agesilaus was a son of the Spartan king Archidamus II. Agesilaus was not in...
Xenophon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...later Xenophon joined the Spartan king Agesilaus in the continuing battle against Persia...the two men, and the eulogistic sketch Agesilaus is a permanent record of this friendship. When Agesilaus was recalled in 394, Xenophon accompanied...
Agis IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...replacing the ephors with men he trusted. One was his uncle, Agesilaus, a very wealthy and astute man, who persuaded Agis to burn...ephors in 241. Agis returned disheartened by the treachery of Agesilaus, but he did not use the army for a coup d'etat, preferring...
Lysander
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...prestige. When Agis II died in 398, Lysander secured the election of Agesilaus, who took command in Asia Minor. Lysander accompanied him as chief of staff, but Agesilaus soon dismissed him. In 395, when Boeotia and Athens rose against Sparta...
Tissaphernes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...were the chief figures in Artaxerxes' reign. After Tissaphernes asserted supremacy over the Ionian cities, he was involved in war with the Spartans, and Agesilaus II defeated him in 395. He was removed from office and assassinated.
Callias
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Callistratus to negotiate a peace treaty in 371 BC The treaty was ineffective, and friction between Epaminondas of Thebes and Agesilaus II of Sparta became acute. Callias was a rich man and his wealth was ridiculed by his contemporaries, including Aristophanes...
Epaminondas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...obscure. As the Theban delegate to the peace conference of 371 BC he refused to surrender his claim to represent all Boeotia. Agesilaus II of Sparta therefore excluded Thebes from the peace. In the resulting war Epaminondas commanded the Boeotian troops. His...
Sparta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...431-404 BC), which wrecked the Athenian empire. Soon after their victory over Athens the dominant Spartans, led by Agesilaus II , were involved in a war with Persia; then the Spartan envoy Antalcidas concluded (386 BC) a treaty with Artaxerxes...

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Macgregor sits is the head of the table, where
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...names are used as well as Macgregor, and in the late 16th century in Euphues and his England , John Lyly has the story of Agesilaus' son who, when mocked for being placed at the lower end of the table, answered that the upper end was where he was sitting...
Kaniṣka
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...and Vasumitra, as well as the physician Caraka, the politician Māṭhara, and the Greek engineer Agesilaus, who designed and built a famous stūpa in Kaniṣka's capital of Puruṣapura (Pesh...
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...in Cnidus paid for a visit to Egypt, where he seems to have had diplomatic dealings with King Nekhtanibef II on behalf of Agesilaus II of Sparta. Eudoxus spent more than a year in Egypt, some of the time in the company of the priests at Heliopolis. He...

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Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 8/4/2003; 700+ words ; ...program shows how the survival of Spartan babies was random, how Athens feared the liberated women of Sparta, and how King Agesilaus' utopian vision ultimately destroyed Sparta's powerful rule. Still, its influence is seen even today. THURSDAY * CELEBRATE...
The language of literature; linguistic approaches to classical texts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 465 words ; ...of mythical chronology in the odes of Pindar, aspectual differences and narrative techniques in Xenophon's Hellenica and Agesilaus, and a pragmatic explanation for adjective ordering in Herodotus. Most of the Greek and Latin quotations are followed by...
Birthplace of Infamy; An old house in Maryland -- home to America's greatest tragic actors and an actor in America's greatest tragedy -- has never lost its power to impassion.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/4/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...one is certain which -- Wilkes, as his sister called him, slept on a straw pillow, like his hero, the Spartan general Agesilaus. He hung his swords, pistols, daggers and blunderbuss on a set of mounted antlers. He played the flute, recited Shakespeare...
Today in History - Nov. 2
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/2/2005; ; 692 words ; ...If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory." _ Agesilaus II, King of Sparta (circa 444-360 B.C.) Copyright 2005, AP News All Rights Reserved
ALMANAC
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 11/2/2005; ; 605 words ; ...done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory." - Agesilaus II, King of Sparta (circa 444-360 B.C.) Copyright 2003 by Telegraph-Herald, All rights Reserved.
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2005. There are
Newspaper article from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin; 11/1/2005; 573 words ; ...Nashville Star") is19. "If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed willbe my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory."Agesilaus II, King of Sparta (circa 444-360 B.C.) AP-WS-10-24-05 1046EDT
Develop people and units before developing technology.
Magazine article from: Military Review; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Agesilaus answers a man who asks why Sparta has no walls by pointing to the army and saying, 'There are Sparta's walls.' --Silius...
TOT Hike: Wrong Tax, Wrong Time.(hotel occupancy tax)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 10/8/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...possibility. In considering this proposal to boost the TOT, the City Council must re ember the words of the Spartan king Agesilaus: "It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad."
No flights of fancy for fat-livered ducks in ‘foie gras’ country.(Dispatches)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 4/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...push food down their throats. Then, in the 5th century BC, the Greek poet Cratinus wrote about geese fatteners and when Agesilaus, King of the Spartans, visited Egypt in 361BCE, he was offered fattened geese. Later still, in the 1st century, Pliny...
Greek hoplites, warrior culture, and indirect bias.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...broken in two, swords drawn from their scabbards - some on the ground, some in bodies, some still held in the hand' (Agesilaus 2.14). Rival commanders had considerable discretion in their choice of terrain, their use of auxiliaries in support...