person
Agis IV of Sparta
Agis
also: Agim regem, King Agis
Reforming king of Sparta (c. 265-241 BC) who sought to cancel debts and redistribute land, and was put to death by the ephors. Cicero cites the killing of King Agis and the expulsion of Lysander as the injustice that ruined Sparta and, through her, the rest of Greece.
Reading notes
- On Duties §2.80 to put to death King Agis
Agis IV, reforming king of Sparta executed by the ephors c. 241 BC, the first such killing of a Spartan king. Cicero traces Sparta's ruin to the injustice of these debt-and-land controversies.