Agis (son of Eudamidas)

Also known as: Agis · Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8

Agis, son of Eudamidas, was king of the Lacedæmonians. In Book 6, he led their invasion of Elis after Lichas was punished at the games; Thrasybulus practised divination for the Mantineans against his forces.

In Book 7, Agis captured Pellene but was soon driven out by Aratus and the Sicyonians. In Book 8, the Mantineans and Aratus’s Achaean force defeated him in self-defence. At Mantinea, Agis and his men pressed Aratus’s division before the Arcadians attacked their flanks and surrounded them; Agis fell in the battle.

Agis later failed to take Megalopolis when the North Wind broke his battering-ram. The people there honoured Boreas for preserving them from Agis and the Lacedæmonians.