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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]
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 ...
In Greek mythology, Myles (/ ˈ m aɪ l iː z /; Ancient Greek: Μύλης means 'mill-man') was an ancient king of Laconia.He was the son of the King Lelex and possibly the naiad Queen Cleocharia, and brother of Polycaon.
Eurydice was the daughter of King Lacedaemon and Queen Sparta, the legendary founders of Sparta and thus sister to Amyclas. [1] Later on, Eurydice married King Acrisius of Argos and became the mother of Danaë who begot the celebrated hero Perseus. Her other daughter was possibly Evarete, wife of Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis. [2]
Withal he banished from Lacedaemon all strangers who would not give a very good reason for their coming thither; not because he was afraid lest they should inform themselves of and imitate his manner of government (as Thucydides says), or learn anything to their good; but rather lest they should introduce something contrary to good manners ...
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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.