Agesilaus I

Agesilaus I. (Greek Ἀγησίλαος ) In Greek mythology, the son of Doryssos and the sixth king of Sparta from the House of Agiaden. During his reign, Lycurgus, the famous legislator, the Spartan laws written.

After the death of his father he succeeded to the throne and, according to Pausanias, who ruled only briefly, however, the Excerpta Latina Barbari write to him 30 and Jerome even 44 years to government. As his successor Hieronymus calls his son Archelaus.