Agésilas is a play written by Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...

 and published in 1666.

Plot summary

The story happens in Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...

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Lysander promised his daughters Elpinice and Aglatide in marriage respectively to Cotys and Spitridate but he needs the agreement of Agésilas.
In the meantime, Spitridate has fallen in love with Elpinice (instead of Aglatide) and Cotys loves Mandane.

Characters

• Agésilas
  Agesilaus II
  Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, "as good as thought commander and king of all Greece," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his...
  
  , king of Sparta
  Sparta
  Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c...
  
  
• Lysander
  Lysander
  Lysander was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC...
  
  , famous Spartan captain
• Cotys, king of Paphlagonia
  Paphlagonia
  Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the Black Sea coast of north central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus to the east, and separated from Phrygia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus...
  
  
• Spitridate, Persian high lord
• Mandane, sister of Spitridate
• Elpinice, daughter of Lysander
• Aglatide, daughter of Lysander
• Xénoclès, lieutenant of Agésilas
• Cléon, greek speechmaker, from Halicarnassus
  Halicarnassus
  Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city at the site of modern Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the tomb of Mausolus, the origin of the word mausoleum, built between 353 BC and 350 BC, and...
  
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