Leonidas II
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Leonidas II was the 28th Agiad King of Sparta from 254 to 242 BC and from 241 to 235 BC.
Cleombrotus II ordered into banishment by Leonidas II king of Sparta, Pelagio Palagi (1775–1860).
Kleombrotos sent into Exile by Leonidas II, Oil on canvas, Benjamin West, c. 1768.
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Ephor
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The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta. They had an extensive range of judicial, religious, legislative, and military powers, and could shape Sparta's home and foreign affairs.
Leonidas II
…half-Persian. His Persian-influenced lifestyle, his non-Spartan (therefore foreign) wife and his half-Spartan children would all be made issues by the ephor Lysander, the co-king Agis IV, and their supporters. Leonidas II opposed the attempted reforms of his Eurypontid co-king, Agis IV. The ephor, Lysander…
1862 imagining of the ephors
Ephor Brasidas during combat