Agesipolis (son of Pausanias)
Also known as: Agesipolis · Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 5
After Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) went into voluntary exile, Agesipolis (son of Pausanias) and his brother Cleombrotus (son of Pausanias) were still young, so Aristodemus (regent for Agesipolis), their next of kin, was appointed regent. Agesipolis’s first war was against the Argives; he later led an expedition against the Olynthians and, after successful campaigns in Chalcidice, died suddenly while hoping to take Olynthus.
At Mantinea, Agesipolis defeated the Mantineans and captured the city by diverting the Ophis through its unbaked-brick walls. He left part of the city habitable, razed most of it, and dispersed its inhabitants among surrounding villages. In a later account, Epaminondas restored those Mantineans to Mantinea.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aristodemus was appointed Regent while Agesipolis and Cleombrotus were still young.(Book 3 · Chapter 5)
- With: Cleombrotus (son of Pausanias) Aristodemus (regent for Agesipolis)
- “And after the voluntary exile of Pausanias, his sons Agesipolis and Cleombrotus being quite young, Aristodemus the next of kin was appointed Regent:”
- Agesipolis died suddenly after successful campaigns in Chalcidice.(Book 3 · Chapter 5)
- “and having been successful in battle, and taken most of the other cities in Chalcidice, and hoping to take Olynthus also, he was carried off by a sudden disease and died.”
- Agesipolis captures Mantinea by diverting the Ophis through its unbaked-brick walls.(Book 8 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Mantinea)
- “And Agesipolis was victorious in the battle, and shut the Mantineans up in their fortress, and captured Mantinea in no long time, not by storm, but by turning the river Ophis into the city through the walls which were built of unbaked brick.”
- Agesipolis razes most of Mantinea and distributes its inhabitants among surrounding villages.(Book 8 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Mantinea)
- “And when he took Mantinea, he left part of it habitable, but most of it he rased to the ground, and distributed the inhabitants in the various villages.”
- Epaminondas restored the Mantineans whom Agesipolis had dispersed to villages.(Book 9 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Mantinea)
- With: Epaminondas
- “restored the Mantineans, who had been dispersed in villages by Agesipolis, to Mantinea”
Book 3 · Chapter 5
- parent: Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) “And after the voluntary exile of Pausanias, his sons Agesipolis and Cleombrotus being quite young”
- siblings with Cleombrotus (son of Pausanias) “his sons Agesipolis and Cleombrotus being quite young”
- guardian: Aristodemus (regent for Agesipolis) “Aristodemus the next of kin was appointed Regent”
- enemies with Argives (The Argives are a collective rather than a named individual, so this relationship is omitted under the named-person constraint.) “his first war was against the Argives”
- enemies with Olynthians (The Olynthians are a collective rather than named individuals, so this relationship is omitted under the named-person constraint.) “he returned from Argolis sorely against his will, and led an expedition against the Olynthians”
Book 8 · Chapter 8
- parent: Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) “a Lacedæmonian force under King Agesipolis, the son of Pausanias, invaded the territory of Mantinea”
- with Cimon (Agesipolis imitated Cimon's earlier stratagem.) “This stratagem which Agesipolis employed against the walls of Mantinea was formerly employed by Cimon, the son of Miltiades, when he was besieging Boges the Mede and the Persians at Eion on the Strymon.”
Book 9 · Chapter 14
- with Epaminondas (Epaminondas reversed Agesipolis's dispersal of the Mantineans.) “restored the Mantineans, who had been dispersed in villages by Agesipolis, to Mantinea”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.