Partial List of Ephors of Sparta

This list was compiled from classical sources by Prof. John Paul Adams at California STate University Northridge, and is merely copied here.

YearEphorsSource
754/3ElatosPlutarch Lycurgus 7
-?-AsteroposPlutarch Cleomenes 10
556/5, or 555/4ChilonDiogenes Laertius I. 68
447/6Kleandridas
[not Eponymous]
The Suda, s.v. 'ephoroi'
before 433/2 (?)*AutokratesIG V.1.1229
before 433/2 (?)*DaiochosIG V.1.1228
before 433/2 (?)*AristeusIG V.1.1230; 213
before 433/2 (?)*EchemenesIG V.1.213
before 433/2 (?)*EuipposIG V.1.1228
2nd half of V.EkprepesPlutarch Agis 10
433/2Sthenelaidas ?Thucydides I. 85; 8.5
Pausanias V. 3.7 & 11
432/1AinesiasThucydides II.2
Xenophon Hellenika II. 3. 10
431/30BrasidasXenophon, ibid.
430/29IsanorXenophon, ibid.
429/8SostratidasXenophon, ibid.
428/7ExarchosXenophon, ibid.
427/6HagesistratosXenophon, ibid.
IG V. 1. 1231
426/5AngenidasXenophon, ibid.
425/4OnomaklesXenophon, ibid.
424/3ZeuxipposXenophon, ibid.
423/2PityasXenophon, ibid.
422/1Pleistolas
Danagetis
Chionis
Metagenes
Akanthos
Xenophon, ibid.
Thucydides V. 19, 24
421/0Kleinomachos
Kleoboulos
Xenares
Xenophon ibid.
Thucydides V. 36, 46
420/19BarchosXenophon, ibid.
419/8LeonXenophon, ibid.
418/7CharilasXenophon, ibid.
417/6PatesiadasXenophon, ibid.
416/5KleosthenesXenophon, ibid.
415/4LukariosXenophon, ibid.
414/3EperatosXenophon, ibid.
413/2Onomantios
Endios
Xenophon, ibid.
Thucydides VIII. 6
412/11AlexippidasXenophon, ibid.
411/10MisgolaidasXenophon, ibid.
410/09IsiasXenophon, ibid.
409/8ArakosXenophon, ibid.
408/7EucharipposXenophon, ibid.
407/6PantaklesXenophon, ibid.
406/5PityasXenophon, ibid.
405/4Archytas
Skiraphidas
Phlogidas
Xenophon, ibid.
Plutarch Lysander 17
404/3Eudios
Naukleidas
Xenophon, Hellenika II. 3.10; II. 4. 36
between 403/2
and 400/399
Thuionidas
Aristogenidas
Archistas
Sologas
Phelidas
IG V. I. 1564
395/4Diphridas
[not Eponymous]
Plutarch Agesilaus 17
between 393
and 361
LakratidasPlutarch Lysander 30
372/1Prothoos
[not Eponymous]
Xenophon Hellenika VI. 4.2
Plutarch Agesilaus 28
370/69Antalkidas
[not Eponymous]
Plutarch Agesilaus 32
338/7Antiochos
[not Eponymous]
Plutarch Moralia 192B, 217F
331/30 or
330/29
EteoklesPlutarch Moralia 235B
Aelian Varia Historica 11. 7
IV. cent. EudamidasIG V. 1. 1232
IV. cent. EumelidasIG V. 1. 1233
IV. cent. Epidateus
[not Eponymous]
Plutarch Agis 5

* or after 404/3

Paul Poralla, Prosopographie der Lakedaimonier (1913) 168-169.

Alan E. Samuel, Greek and Roman Chronology (München 1972) 240-41.


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