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Agis I Agis I (Greek: ) was a king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. He was possibly the first historical king of Sparta, reigning at the end of the tenth century BC, during the emergence of the Dorians in Laconia. He is said by most ancient au ...

(died 900 BC), Spartan king *

Agis II Agis II (; died 399 BC) was the 18th Eurypontid king of Sparta, the eldest son of Archidamus II by his first wife, and half-brother of Agesilaus II. He ruled with his Agiad co-monarch Pausanias.

(died 401 BC), Spartan king *

Agis III Agis III (Ancient Greek, Greek: , died 331 BC) was the eldest son of Archidamus III, and the 21st Eurypontid king of Sparta between 338 and 331 BC. He tried to lead a revolt against Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonian hegemony over Greece, but ...

(died 331 BC), Spartan king *

Agis IV Agis IV (; c. 265 BC – 241 BC), the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 25th king of the Kings of Sparta, Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta. Posterity has reckoned him an idealistic but impractical monarch. Family background and accession Agis ...

(265–241 BC), Spartan king *

Agis (Paeonian) Agis (; died 358 BC) was founder and king of the Paeonian Kingdom. A contemporary of Philip II of Macedon, Agis was a pretender to the Macedonian throne in a time of instability.The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 6: The Fourth Century BC by D. ...

(died 358 BC), King of the Paeonians *

Agis of Argos Agis (; Greek: , ''gen''.: ) was an Ancient Greek poet from Argos, and a contemporary of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied on his Asiatic expedition. Quintus Curtius Rufus as well as Arrian and Plutarch describe him as a sycophant, one of t ...

, ancient Greek poet *

Maurice Agis Maurice Agis (7 December 1931 – 12 October 2009) was a British sculptor and artist whose ''Dreamspace'' projects drew the involvement and work of various schools and art institutions all over Britain. His disillusionment with galleries and m ...

(1931–2009), British sculptor and artist

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* ''Agis'' (play), by John Home * Agis, several fictional emperors of Isaac Asimov's

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Apex Global Internet Services AGIS (Apex Global Internet Services) is a former Internet backbone based in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It is most remembered as having openly hosted spam email services, which destroyed its reputation and led to its bankruptcy. Corporate ...

Atomic gravitational wave interferometric sensor A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational waves. Since the 1960s, various kinds of gravitational-wave detectors have been built ...

* Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study, conducted by the National Eye Institute

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