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Archidamus II
Archidamus II: king of Sparta from the Eurypontid house, ruler from 469(?) until his death in 427/426 BCE. The first phase of the Peloponnesian War is called after him: the Archidamian War.
The antecedents of Archidamus are mentioned by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus:
King Leotychidas had a son Zeuxidamus, whom some of the Spartans called "puppy".
This man did not become king of Sparta, because he died before Leotychidas, leaving a son Archidamus. After the loss of Zeuxidamus, Leotychidas married a second wife Eurydame [...], by whom he had no male issue, but a daughter Lampito, whom Archidamus the son of Zeuxidamos took in marriage.note[Herodotus, Histories6.71.]
The year of Zeuxidamus' death is not known, but we know that Leotychidas II was forced to leave Sparta, probably in 475, to live in exile in Tegea, because an expedition to Thessaly had ended without success and he had been accused of accepting bribes.
It is not clear whether