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Lacedaemon was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Taygete. By Princess Sparta, the daughter of former King Eurotas, he was the father of his heir Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos. [2] In a rare version of the myth, Taygete was the wife of Lacedaemon and their children were Himerus and Cleodice. [3]
Eurotas with his daughter Sparta. Eurotas was the son of King Myles of Laconia and grandson of Lelex, eponymous ancestor of the Leleges. [2] The Bibliotheca gave a slight variant of the mythological generation of Eurotas, who was described as the son of Lelex, born from the ground, by his wife Cleocharia. [3]
Lacedaemonius came from Lacedaemon, another name for the city state of Sparta. His father so admired the Spartans that as a sign of goodwill he named his son after their city. Lacedaemonius was also identified as the proxenos of the Spartans in Athens. [7]
The second word, "Lacedaemon" (Λακεδαίμων), [7] was often used as an adjective and is the name referenced in the works of Homer and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. The third term, "Laconice" ( Λακωνική ), referred to the immediate area around the town of Sparta, the plateau east of the Taygetos mountains, [ 8 ] and ...
Together they received the land of Lacedaemon after Cresphontes, Temenus and Aristodemus defeated Tisamenus, the last Achaean king of the Peloponnesus. Eurysthenes married Lathria, daughter of Thersander , King of Kleonae, sister of his sister-in-law Anaxandra, and was the father of his successor, Agis I , founder of the Agiad dynasty of the ...
Lacedaemonia may refer to: . Laconia, a modern regional unit of Greece; The ancient region of Greece of the same name; see Laconia#Ancient history; Lacedaemonia, the name borne by the city of Sparta from Late Antiquity to the 19th century
Amyclas was the son of King Lacedemon and Queen Sparta, and brother of Queen Eurydice of Argos.After marrying Diomēdē, daughter of Lapithes, in 1351 BC, [1] he became the father of Argalus, [2] Cynortas, [3] Hyacinth, [4] Laodamia [5] (or Leaneira [6]), Harpalus, [7] Hegesandre [8] and possibly of Polyboea. [9]
The Lacedaemonion Politeia (Ancient Greek: Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία), known in English as the Polity, Constitution, or Republic of the Lacedaemonians, or the Spartan Constitution, [1] [2] [3] is a treatise attributed to the ancient Greek historian Xenophon, describing the institutions, customs, and practices of the ancient Spartans.