Agis
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Agis may refer to:
- Agis IAgis IAgis I was a legendary king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. He was the son of Eurysthenes, first monarch of this dynasty, which ruled the city along with the Eurypontids. His genealogy was traced through Aristodemus, Aristomachus, Cleodaeus and Hyllus all the way to Heracles, and he...
(died 900 BC), a Spartan king - Agis IIAgis IIAgis II was the 17th Eurypontid king of Sparta, the eldest son of Archidamus II by his first wife, and half-brother of Agesilaus II. He ruled with his Agiad co-monarch Pausanias....
(died 401 BC), a Spartan king - Agis IIIAgis IIIAgis III , son of Archidamus III, was the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta.He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea...
(died 331 BC), a Spartan king - Agis IVAgis IVAgis IV , the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 24th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta. Posterity has reckoned him an idealistic but impractical monarch.-Succession:...
(265 BC–241 BC), a Spartan king; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives - Agis (Paeonian)Agis (Paeonian)Agis was an ancient Paeonian king....
, a Paionian king of the pre-Hellenistic era - Agis of ArgosAgis of ArgosAgis was an ancient Greek poet from Argos, and a contemporary of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied on his Asiatic expedition. Curtius as well as Arrian and Plutarch describe him as a sycophant, one of the basest flatterers of the king...
, an ancient Greek poet - AGIS (Apex Global Internet Services)AGIS (Apex Global Internet Services)AGIS is a former Internet backbone based in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. It is most remembered as having openly hosted spam email services, which destroyed its reputation and led to its bankruptcy.-Corporate history:...
, a former Internet service provider - Maurice AgisMaurice AgisMaurice Agis was a British sculptor and artist whose Dreamspace projects have drawn the involvement and work of various schools and art institutions all over Britain...
(1931–2009), a British sculptor and artist - Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric SensorAtomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric SensorAn atomic gravitational wave interferometric sensor is a novel detection scheme to detect gravitational waves, proposed by S. Dimopoulos et. al in 2008....
, or (AGIS), a proposed type of gravitational wave detector