Leotychides

Family: Sparta · Role: son of Timaea · First appears: Alcibiades

Life events

Lysander secured Agesilaus’s succession to the Spartan throne.(Lysander · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Lysander Agesilaus Agis
- “By this argument, and by his great influence among them, he prevailed, and Agesilaus was made king.”
Agesilaus obtained the Spartan kingdom by procuring a bastardy judgment against Leotychides.(Comparison of Pompey and Agesilaus · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Agesilaus
- “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”

parent: Timaea “when she was brought to bed of a son, called him in public Leotychides”
parent: Alcibiades “amongst her confidants and attendants, would whisper that his name was Alcibiades”

parent: Agis “he declared Leotychides to be his”
rivals with Agesilaus “When king Agis died, leaving a brother Agesilaus, and Leotychides, who was supposed his son”

with Cimon (Leotychides's victories preceded Cimon's assumption of command.) “Cimon, moreover, when he took the command, found the power of the king broken, and the spirits of the Persians humbled by their great defeats and incessant routs under Themistocles, Pausanias, and Leotychides”

parent: Agis “by his prayers and tears he prevailed with him to declare him his son before several witnesses upon his death-bed”

with Agesilaus (Agesilaus procured a judgment declaring Leotychides illegitimate.) “by procuring judgment of bastardy against Leotychides, whom his brother had declared his lawful son”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.