Leonidas kills Agis IV.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Leonidas II Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Victim (Person) :	Agis IV Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 40.3Plutarch Agesilaus 40.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sparte / Lakedaimon (Sparta)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	241 B.C.
Context :	civilian regicide
Motivation :	political
Original Text :	τὴν δὲ βασιλείαν Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ παρέλαβε, καὶ διέμεινε τῷ γένει μέχρις Ἄγιδος, ὃν ἐπιχειροῦντα τὴν πάτριον ἀναλαβεῖν πολιτείαν ἀπέκτεινε Λεωνίδας πέμπτον ἀπ᾽ Ἀγησιλάου γεγονότα.
Translation :	The kingdom devolved upon Archidamus his son, and remained in his family down to Agis, who was slain by Leonidas 1 for attempting to restore the ancient constitution, being the fifth in descent from Agesilaüs.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
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