order to wage war against Cassander. Eudamidas visited Athens when Xenocrates was the head of the Academy (between 339 and 314). The reason of his visit was probably diplomacy, but Plutarch reports that Eudamidas actually discussed philosophy with Xenocrates there, a stark contrast from the military role hitherto assumed by the Spartan kings. Eudamidas' date of death is not known. He was presumably still alive in 302, because Diodorus of Sicily does not mention his death in his list of royal deaths for this year. As his book is fragmentary after this date, Eudamidas' death must have been mentioned in one of the text's subsequent lacunae. He was certainly dead by 294, when his son Archidamus IV is mentioned as king. Scholars usually place his death between c.302 and c.300. Notes Bibliography Ancient sources Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Plutarch, Moralia. Modern sources Paul Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia, A Regional History 1300–362 BC, London, Routledge, 2001 (originally published in 1979). ——, Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. George L. Cawkwell, "Agesilaus and Sparta", The Classical Quarterly 26 (1976), pp. 62–84. Paul Cloché, "La politique extérieure de Lacédémone depuis la mort d'Agis III jusqu'à celle d'Acrotatos, fils d'Areus Ier", Revue des Études Anciennes, 1945 47 n°3-4, pp. 219–242. Ephraim David, Sparta between Empire and Revolution (404-243 B.C.), Internal Problems and Their Impact on Contemporary Greek Consciousness, New York, 1981. Ioanna Kralli, The Hellenistic Peloponnese: Interstate Relations, A Narrative and Analytic History, from the Fourth Century to 146 BC, Swansea, The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. E. I. McQueen, "Some Notes on the Anti-Macedonian Movement in the Peloponnese in 331 B.C.", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 27, H. 1 (1st Qtr., 1978), pp. 40–64. ——, "The Eurypontid House in Hellenistic Sparta", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 39, H. 2 (1990), pp. 163–181. Graham J. Shipley, The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese: Politics, Economies, and Networks 338-197 BC, Cambridge University Press, 2018. C. G. Thomas, "On the Role of the Spartan Kings", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 23, H. 3 (3rd Qtr.,1974), pp. 257–270. 4th-century BC rulers 4th-century BC Spartans Eurypontid kings of Sparta