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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]
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 ...
Sparta was the daughter of King Eurotas of Laconia and Cleta. [2] Pausanias also describes Tiasa as being Eurotas's daughter. [1] [3]By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo and Zephyrus.
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]
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]
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]
Mythology [ edit ] In compliance with an oracle , to have caused his four daughters to be sacrificed on the tomb of the Cyclops Geraestus, for the purpose of delivering the city from famine and the plague , under which it was suffering during the war with Minos over the death of the latter's son Androgeos .
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