Echestratus

Echestratus
King of Sparta
Reign	c. 900 – 870 BC
Predecessor	Agis I
Successor	Labotas

King of Sparta from c. 900 to c. 870 BC

Echestratus (Greek: Ἐχέστρατος) was a King of ancient Sparta from about 900 to 870 BC.^{[citation needed]} He was a son of king Agis I, and third of the Agiad line of Spartan kings.

In his reign Sparta gained control of the district of Cynuria on the Argive border. He was the father of Labotas or Leobotes, king of Sparta.^[1] His grandson was Doryssus.

Notes

^ Pausanias iii. 2. § 2; Herodotus vii. 204.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Clough, Arthur Hugh (1870). "Echestratus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 3.