Tables of Rulers

In the lists below, many dates, inevitably, are only approximate, and in some cases it is a matter of taste what date or even what ruler one chooses to give (see the notes for some such cases). Co-regencies (with the exception of Philip III and Alexander IV) have generally been ignored to avoid cluttering up the lists, but in the cases of queens who ruled de facto, they had to be included since in those cases there usually was a king de iure as well. Where two rulers each controlled a substantial part of the country in question, both are indicated (with overlapping dates). Numeration of rulers is a modern habit and occasionally confuses more than it clarifies. The ancient convention was to use epithets - both official and unofficial. In the tables below the epithet(s) in most common use in modern scholarship is/are given, and a gloss is attached whenever the epithet’s meaning is transparent.

A History of Greece: 1300 to 30 BC, First Edition. Victor Parker.

© 2014 Victor Parker. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Sparta (from Late Sixth Century)

*Agiad. Eucleidas’ successors, Lycurgus and Lycurgus’ son Pelops, may have been Eurypontids. ** Regent since 207.