Archidamus may refer to:
*one of several
kings of Sparta
For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had ...
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Archidamus I
Archidamus I, also spelled Archidamos I (), was a king of Sparta, 12th of the Eurypontids. He reigned from 660 to 645.Cartledge, ''Agesilaos'', p. 23.
His relationship to other Spartan kings is unclear. According to Herodotus, Archidamus was th ...
(c. 600–575 BC)
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Archidamus II
Archidamus II ( ; died 427/6 BC) was a king of Sparta who reigned from approximately 469/8 BC to 427/6 BC. His father was Zeuxidamus (called Cyniscos by many Spartans). Zeuxidamus married and had a son, Archidamus. However, Zeuxidamus d ...
(469–427 BC)
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Archidamus III
Archidamus III (died 338 BC) ( ) was the son of Agesilaus II and Kings of Sparta, king of Sparta from 360 to 338 BC.
Biography
While still a prince, he was the Pederasty in ancient Greece#Terminology, eispnílas (, inspirer, or pederastic ...
(360–338 BC)
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Archidamus IV
Archidamus IV () was Eurypontid king of Sparta from 300 BC to 275 BC. An obscure king, Archidamus is only known for his defeat against the Macedonian king Demetrius Poliorketes at Mantinea in 294, where he might have also died since nothing i ...
(305–275 BC)
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Archidamus V
Archidamus V () was the 27th of the Kings of Sparta of the Eurypontid line, reigning during 228 and 227 BC.
He was the son of Eudamidas II and Agesistrata and through him the grandson of Archidamus IV, after whom he was named.
After his brothe ...
(228–227 BC)
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Archidamus (speech) Archidamus may refer to:
*one of several kings of Sparta:
** Archidamus I (c. 600–575 BC)
**Archidamus II (469–427 BC)
**Archidamus III (360–338 BC)
**Archidamus IV (305–275 BC)
**Archidamus V (228–227 BC)
* Archidamus (speech), a speech o ...
, a speech of
Isocrates
Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and writte ...
written in the voice of Archidamus III
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Archidamus (physician)
Archidamus () was a physician of ancient Greece of whom no particulars are known, but who must have lived in the fourth or fifth century BCE, as Galen quotes one of his opinions, which was preserved by the medical writer Diocles of Carystus.
A phy ...
, an ancient Greek doctor quoted by
Galen
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...
who lived in the 4th or 5th century BCE
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Archedemus (disambiguation) Archedemus or Archedamus ( or Ἀρχέδαμος) was the name of a number of different people from classical antiquity:
* Archedemus of Athens, an Athenian leader in the 5th century BCE
* Archedemus of Pelekes (Ὁ Πήληξ), a speaker mentioned ...
, a name commonly interchanged with Archidamus in the ancient world
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