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About Theopompus, the son of Nicander, who ascended the throne after him, I shall have more to say later on, when I come to the history of
Nevertheless Archidamus did not die childless, but left a son Zeuxidamus, whose son Anaxidamus succeeded to the throne. In his reign the Messenians were expelled from the
Ariston, son of Agesicles, married a wife who, they say, was the ugliest maiden in
about the birth of Eurystheus, or else never having understood them at all, declared that because of the number of months the child was not his.
Afterwards he repented of his words. Demaratus, a king of good repute at
Leotychides, on coming to the throne in place of Demaratus, took part with the Athenians and the Athenian general Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, in the engagement of Mycale, note and afterwards undertook a campaign against the Aleuadae in
Or, being brought to trial in
Nevertheless he was not eager that war should be declared between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, but to the utmost of his power tried to keep the truce between them unbroken. note It was Sthenelaidas, an influential Spartan who was an ephor at the time, who was chiefly responsible for the war.
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Archidamus left sons when he died, of whom Agis was the elder and inherited the throne instead of Agesilaus. Archidamus had also a daughter, whose name was Cynisca; she was exceedingly ambitious to succeed at the Olympic games, and was the first woman to breed horses and the first to win an Olympic victory. After Cynisca other women, especially women of The Spartans seem to me to be of all men the least moved by poetry and the praise of poets. For with the exception of the epigram upon Cynisca, of uncertain authorship, and the still earlier one upon Pausanias that Simonides wrote on the tripod dedicated at
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