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Key facts
- Reign
- 245–241 BC
- Predecessor
- Eudamidas II
- Successor
- Eudamidas III
- Died
- 241 BC, Sparta
- Consort
- Agiatis
- Dynasty
- Eurypontid
- Father
- Eudamidas II
- Mother
- Agesistrata
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sparta
- Place of birth
- Sparta
- Place of death
- Sparta
- Spouse
- Agiatis
- Child
- Eudamidas III
- Father
- Eudamidas II
- Mother
- Agesistrata
- Sibling
- Archidamus V
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- king of Sparta
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Doom Agis Childrens Plutarch Walter Crane.png
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- date of birth
- 0265-00-00
- date of death
- 0241-00-00
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- time period
- classical antiquity
- Commons category
- Agis IV
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Agis IV (Ancient Greek: Ἄγις; c. 265 BC – 241 BC), the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 25th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta. Posterity has reckoned him an idealistic but impractical monarch.
Family background and accession
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agis IV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.