http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-4/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-4/#comment-136 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:10:12 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-136 Yes it is Leotychidas! Congratulations! This was a hard question and to tell you the truth a couple of hours ago I started despairing.

]]> http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-4/#comment-135 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:23:33 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-135 Leotychidas? His namesake was Leotychidas II who became king thanks to Cleomenes (the OCD calls him “one of the half-dozen most influential [Spartan kings] on record.” He lost out to Agesilaus II in 400 BCE thanks to Lysander (again according to the OCD “perhaps the first living Greek ever to receive divine worship”). Leotychidas may have been as much Athenian as Spartan as there were rumors that his father was not Agis II but Alcibiades.

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