Eurypontid house

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The Eurypontid house was one of the two royal dynasties of ancient Sparta, traditionally traced back to King Eurypontus and ruling alongside the Agiad line.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Eurypontid house canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Spartan royal dynasty ⓘ
hereditary monarchy ⓘ
associatedWithPolity Lacedaemon ⓘ
coexistedWith Agiad house ⓘ
linked to: Agiad dynasty
coRuledWith Agiad kings ⓘ
linked to: Agiad dynasty
country Sparta ⓘ
describedBy Herodotus ⓘ
Pausanias ⓘ
Plutarch ⓘ
dynasticStructure one of two Spartan royal lines ⓘ
endOfPower decline with loss of Spartan independence in Hellenistic era ⓘ
governanceType hereditary kingship ⓘ
governmentBranch executive power in Sparta ⓘ
religious authority in Sparta ⓘ
hasNotableKing King Agesilaus II ⓘ
King Agis II ⓘ
King Agis III ⓘ
King Archidamus II ⓘ
linked to: Archidamus II

King Archidamus III ⓘ
linked to: Archidamus III

King Cleomenes III ⓘ
Lycurgus (traditional lawgiver, sometimes linked to Eurypontids) ⓘ
hasRole judicial authority ⓘ
military leadership ⓘ
religious leadership ⓘ
language Doric Greek ⓘ
locatedIn Ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Laconia ⓘ
Peloponnese ⓘ
militaryFunction command of Spartan armies (shared with Agiads) ⓘ
namedAfter Eurypontus ⓘ
numberOfKings one of two simultaneous Spartan kings ⓘ
originLegend Eurypontus ⓘ
partOf Spartan constitution ⓘ
politicalStatus leading aristocratic family in Sparta ⓘ
politicalSystem Spartan diarchy ⓘ
religion Ancient Greek religion ⓘ
sharesDiarchyWith Agiad house ⓘ
linked to: Agiad dynasty
successionRule patrilineal succession ⓘ
timePeriod Archaic Greece ⓘ
Classical Greece ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
traditionalAncestry Heraclid descent (mythical) ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Archidamus II → house → Eurypontid house ⓘ
Agis III → house → Eurypontid house ⓘ