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Agis III

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331 bc, near Megalopolis, Arcadia [Greece]

Agis III (died 331 bc, near Megalopolis, Arcadia [Greece]) was a Spartan king (338–331) who rebelled unsuccessfully against Alexander the Great.

A member of the Eurypontid house (one of the two royal families of Sparta), Agis succeeded to the throne of his father, Archidamus III. While Alexander was invading Anatolia, Agis, profiting from the Macedonian general’s absence from Greece, led the Greek cities in revolt. With Persian money and 8,000 Greek mercenaries, he tried to hold Crete against Alexander. In 331 he raised a coalition in the Peloponnese and laid siege to Megalopolis. Alexander’s regent, Antipater, made peace with the Thracians (with whom he had been warring), marched south, and won a hard-fought battle near Megalopolis (331). Agis was killed, and Spartan resistance was broken.

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