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It nevertheless seems that
Anaxandridas was opposed to the pro-Achaean policy of Chilon. The king was indeed forced by the ephors to marry a second wife after his first wife did not give him a son. Chilon's influence behind this decision can be detected, because the king's second wife was one of
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sent his embassy to form an alliance with "the mightiest of the Greeks" (about 554 BC), the war with Tegea, which during the reigns of previous
Spartan kings had gone against them, had, under Anaxandridas II and the Spartan Eurypontid king
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294:Cleombrotus
282:Cleomenes I
234:Peloponnese
192:Eurypontids
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59:Cleomenes I
45:Predecessor
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756:Tisamenus
730:Hippocoon
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254:Tisamenus
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182:Biography
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843:Alcmenes
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199:Tegeatae
172:Messenia
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1101:Agis II
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943:Areus I
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238:Dorians
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