Cleocharia
| Cleocharia | |
|---|---|
Sparta Royal Family | |
| Abode | Lelegia (later called Laconia) |
| Personal information | |
| Parents | ?Eurotas |
| Siblings | unknown |
| Consort | Lelex |
| Children | (1) Eurotas (2) ?Myles and Polycaon |
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| Nymphs |
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Lelex of Lelegia. She was the ancestress of the Spartan royal family and gave birth to Eurotas (presumably named after his grandfather). Eurotas had a daughter named Sparta, who married Lacedaemon.[2] The latter named the city of Sparta
after his wife. However, the city's name would also be his own, as it was called either Lacedaemon or Sparta interchangeably.
In some accounts, Lelex's two children were Myles and Polycaon possibly by Cleocharia. In this account, Myles was the father of Eurotas instead.[3]
Notes
- ^ Bolles, William, ed. (1845). An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. New London: Bolles & Williams. p. 859.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3
- ^ Pausanias, 3.1.1, 3.20.2, 4.1.1 & 4.1.5
References
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.