Agesilaus II of Sparta On the Italian Gods in Greek

No work titled On the Italian Gods is attested as being authored by Agesilaus II of Sparta. Agesilaus II, who reigned from approximately 444 to 360 BCE, is historically documented solely as a Eurypontid king and military commander of Sparta, with no record of literary activity in the primary biographical sources of Xenophon and Plutarch. The proposed subject of Italian theology is incongruent with his known life, which was entirely consumed by military campaigns in Asia Minor and Greece, along with intense involvement in Spartan domestic politics. There exists no evidence for a manuscript tradition of any written work by him. The attribution is significant only as a modern error or misidentification, underscoring the complete absence of surviving writings from this major Spartan king and the strict focus of classical historical sources on his political and military role.