Agesipolis II

Agiad king of Sparta from 371 BC to 369 BC

Agesipolis II
King of Sparta
Reign	371 – 369 BC
Predecessor	Cleombrotus I
Successor	Cleomenes II

Agesipolis II (Greek: Ἀγησίπολις Bʹ; died 369 BC), son of the king Cleombrotus I, succeeded his father and reigned as Agiad King of Sparta.^[1] His rule was exceedingly brief; it started in, at most, 371 BC until his death in 369 BC.^[2]^[3] He was succeeded by his brother Cleomenes II.

References

^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agesipolis II", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 71
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 6. § 1
^ Diodorus Siculus, xv. 60