Agesilaus I

{{Short description|King of Sparta from c. 820 to 790 BC}}

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|name=Agesilaus I

|succession=King of Sparta

|reign={{circa}} 820 – 790 BC

|predecessor=Doryssus

|successor=Archelaus of Sparta

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Agesilaus I ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˌ|dʒ|ɛ|s|ə|ˈ|l|eɪ|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Ἀγησίλαος}}), son of Doryssus, was the 6th king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus.{{Citation | last = Clough | first = Arthur Hugh | author-link = Arthur Hugh Clough | contribution = Agesilaus I | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 69 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0078.html }} According to Apollodorus of Athens, he reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC. Pausanias makes his reign a short one, but contemporary with the legislation of Lycurgus.Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 3Osbert Henry Fynes-Clinton, Fasti hellenici, Vol. I, 1834, p. 335 He was succeeded by his son Archelaus. His grandson was Teleclus.