Nabis and defeated him. He then was assassinated in 192 BC by the Aetolian League. He represented the last phase of Sparta's reformist period. Nabis is...

regent for Pelops. Nabis soon overthrew Pelops. Under Nabis, Sparta continued to trouble the Peloponnese. In 205 BC, Philip V of Macedon made a temporary...

Most of the council felt that they should capture Sparta and unseat Nabis. Flamininus replied to Nabis by proposing his own terms, under which Sparta and...

of Nabis, also known as the Iron Apega, was described by Polybius as an ancient torture device similar to the iron maiden. It was invented by Nabis,...

Nabis may refer to: Nabis of Sparta, reigned 207–192 BCE Nabis (art), a Parisian post-Impressionist artistic group Nabis (bug), a genus of insects NABIS...

attempted to free up his forces by handing the city of Argos over to Nabis of Sparta, but Nabis then engineered a revolution in the city and organised...

that restored the dual kingship. Sparta then immediately entered the war on the side of Aetolia. The sources on Nabis, who took power in 207 BC, are so...

Laconian War by a coalition of other Greek city-states and Rome, and the resultant overthrow of its final king Nabis, in 192 BC. Sparta played no active part...

Argos by this point or if she was already married to Nabis, who would later become the tyrant of Sparta. Ancient sources describe her as being as tyrannical...

first Machanidas and then Nabis. In 199 BC however, Pelops was assassinated by Nabis, who assumed the throne. He was the last of the Eurypontid Dynasty....

Spartan king, Nabis, goes to war with the Achaean League. The Achaean general Philopoemen expels Nabis of Sparta from Messene. The Peace of Phoenice prohibits...

192 BC, Gythium was recaptured by Nabis of Sparta, but the Achean League immediately attacked the city. The city of Las was attacked and captured by the...

pierced," or from Polybius' account of Nabis of Sparta's deadly statue of his wife, the Iron Apega (earliest form of the device). The most famous iron maiden...

Spartan tyrant, Nabis, but nevertheless Philopoemen manages to gain a victory over the Spartan forces. Philopoemen's plans for capturing Sparta itself are...

213 BC, Hellas had been free of tyrants for more than 15 years. The last tyrant on the Greek mainland, Nabis of Sparta, was assassinated in 192 BC and...

result of this siege forced Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, to abandon the surrounding land and withdraw to the city of Sparta. Later that year, Sparta capitulated...

Philioces later gave Argos to Nabis of Sparta in return for a Spartan alliance with Macedon. Philoces still remained commander of the Macedonian garrison at...

year he was dispatched east with a fleet, first to intervene against Nabis of Sparta but then – prorogued into the next year – against Antiochus III. He...

request of the Roman envoy Flaminius after his arrival in Greece. In return, Nabis decides, for the moment, to accept the status quo. Nabis then appeals...

After checking the ambitions of Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, the Roman forces under proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus finally withdraw from Greece....

by providing a squadron of 40 ships to accompany his brother's campaign against Nabis of Sparta. Flamininus captured a number of coastal towns by force...

For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in...

Apega of Sparta, wife of the Spartan tyrant Nabis, who also acted as his co-ruler Apega of Nabis, an ancient torture device invented and used by Nabis, said...

was a Spartan of royal descent who appears as king of Sparta for a brief moment in the aftermath of the assassination of the tyrant Nabis in 192 BC. Little...

Quinctius Flamininus in his attack upon Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon (see War against Nabis). Agesipolis was a member of an embassy sent about 183 to Rome...

From Archidamus III to Nabis". Spartans : a new history. Wiley, Chicester. ISBN 9781444360530. Hutchinson, Godfrey (2014). Sparta: Unfit for Empire. Frontline...

Nabis; when they did not, he was persuaded by his Greek allies to march south to attack Sparta instead, as the Spartans were the ultimate source of the...

Spartan king, Nabis, goes to war with the Achaean League. The Achaean general Philopoemen expels Nabis of Sparta from Messene. The Peace of Phoenice prohibits...

tyrant of Sparta in 180 BC. He appears to have been associated with the party of Nabis; for he is found at Rome in 183 BC as the representative of those...

charged with defending Roman allies with his fleet, ostensibly against Nabis of Sparta, who in any event had died before the praetor's arrival. Baebius's...