Aristodemus

Aristodemus (Greek Ἀριστόδημος ) in Greek mythology, a great-grandson of Heracles and one of the three Heraklidenbrüder (the other two were Cresphontes and Temenos, the father's name was Aristomachos ) that the conquered in the Dorian migration country (especially Laconia, Messinia, Peloponnese, Corinth and Megaris ) shared among themselves.

The interviewed by Hyllos Delphic oracle advised him " the third fruit" to wait for the conquest of the Peloponnese, and then to enter the peninsula by " a narrow pass over the lake ." After the fourth unsuccessful attempt to Temenos, Cresphontes and Aristodemos complained the oracle that its instructions had proved unheilbringend, and received the answer that the " third fruit" the "third generation " was meant, and that the " sunken road " not the Isthmus of Corinth was, but the road from Rhion. Accordingly, they built a fleet in Naupaktos, but before they could leak, was destroyed by Apollon by lightning, killed by the well Aristodemus (or he was killed by an arrow of Apollo ), because one of the Heraclides had slain a Acarnanian soothsayers. After the Conquest the landscape Laconia was given to Procles and Eurysthenes, the twin sons of Aristodemus. Their descendants ruled in Laconia (Sparta ) to 221 BC