Archidamus (father of Agesilaus)
Also known as: Archidamus · Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: father · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 8
Archidamus was the father of Agis, Agesilaus, and Cynisca. In Book 3, Chapter 8, his death is followed by Agis, his elder son, succeeding him “and not Agesilaus”; the same chapter names Cynisca as his daughter.
In Book 6, Chapter 1, Cynisca is described as Archidamus’s wife.
Relationship record
Life events
- Archidamus died, and Agis succeeded him instead of Agesilaus.(Book 3 · Chapter 8)
- With: Agis (son of Archidamus) Agesilaus
- “And on the death of Archidamus, Agis the elder of his sons being of age succeeded, and not Agesilaus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 8
- child: Agis (son of Archidamus) “And on the death of Archidamus, Agis the elder of his sons being of age succeeded, and not Agesilaus.”
- child: Agesilaus “And on the death of Archidamus, Agis the elder of his sons being of age succeeded, and not Agesilaus.”
- child: Cynisca “And Archidamus had also a daughter called Cynisca, who was most ambitious in regard to the races at Olympia, and was the first woman who trained horses, and the first woman who won the prize at Olympia”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- child: Agesilaus (Archidamus is Agesilaus's father.) “So Agesilaus the son of Archidamus was king”
Book 3 · Chapter 15
- child: Cynisca “Cynisca, the daughter of Archidamus king of Sparta”
Book 6 · Chapter 1
- married with Cynisca (wife-husband relation) “As to Cynisca the wife of Archidamus, I have spoken previously of her family and victories at Olympia”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.