Spartan kings

Target entity: Spartan kings
Context triple: [Spartan Ephors, hasAuthorityOver, Spartan kings]

• A. Spartan king Pleistoanax
  Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
• B. Areus I of Sparta
  Areus I of Sparta was a 3rd-century BC Spartan king of the Agiad dynasty known for his efforts to revive Spartan power and his involvement in the Hellenistic conflicts against Macedon.
• C. Spartocid dynasty
  The Spartocid dynasty was a ruling family of Thracian origin that controlled the ancient Greek-Scythian Bosporan Kingdom around the Black Sea from the 5th to the 2nd century BCE.
• D. Molossian kings of Epirus
  The Molossian kings of Epirus were an ancient Greek royal dynasty, ancestral to figures like Pyrrhus of Epirus, that ruled the northwestern Greek region of Epirus and played a significant role in Hellenistic politics.
• E. Leonidas I
  Leonidas I was the warrior-king of Sparta famed for leading a small Greek force in a heroic last stand against the vastly larger Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Spartan kings
Target entity description: Spartan kings were the dual hereditary monarchs of ancient Sparta, responsible for military leadership, religious duties, and certain judicial functions within the city-state’s mixed constitutional system.

• A. Spartan king Pleistoanax
  Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
• B. Areus I of Sparta
  Areus I of Sparta was a 3rd-century BC Spartan king of the Agiad dynasty known for his efforts to revive Spartan power and his involvement in the Hellenistic conflicts against Macedon.
• C. Spartocid dynasty
  The Spartocid dynasty was a ruling family of Thracian origin that controlled the ancient Greek-Scythian Bosporan Kingdom around the Black Sea from the 5th to the 2nd century BCE.
• D. Molossian kings of Epirus
  The Molossian kings of Epirus were an ancient Greek royal dynasty, ancestral to figures like Pyrrhus of Epirus, that ruled the northwestern Greek region of Epirus and played a significant role in Hellenistic politics.
• E. Leonidas I
  Leonidas I was the warrior-king of Sparta famed for leading a small Greek force in a heroic last stand against the vastly larger Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
• F. None of above. chosen