Lacedaemon (mythology)

Sparta (Greek: Λακεδαίμων, Sparta ) In Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and the mountain nymph Taygete and the progenitor of the Lacedaemonians ( Spartans ). In historical times, the term encountered sporadically as a formal designation of the Spartan state and / or used in the form of personal Lacedaemonians.

He married division, the daughter of Eurotas. With her he is the father of Amyklas and Eurydice, which was as the wife of Acrisius the mother of Danae and thus grandmother of Perseus.

As king, he followed Eurotas, as this remained without male descendants, to the throne. He founded a new capital and named it after his wife Sparta. His empire, today's landscape Laconia, he named after himself Sparta. He built between Sparta and Amyklai a temple to the Graces and named it Phaenna and Kleta.

Lakedaimons was succeeded by his son Amyklas. In Sparta, Sparta was revered as a hero and a Heroon was at the old village of Therapne.

Swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus, 2, 26; 3, 116
• Pausanias, traveling in Greece, 3, 1, 2-3; 3, 18, 46; 3, 20, 2