Argalus
Appearance
Argalus | |
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King ofSparta | |
Member of the Spartan Royal Family | |
Predecessor | Amyclas |
Successor | Cynortas |
Abode | Sparta |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Amyclas andDiomede |
Siblings | Cynortas,Hyacinth,Laodamia(orLeanira),Harpalus,Hegesandreand?Polyboea half-sister by Amyclas:?Daphne |
Children | Oebalus |
InGreek mythology,King Argalus(Ancient Greek:Ἄργαλος) was a leader of theLacedaemonidGreeksfrom the age of legend, now treated as being theBronze AgeinGreece.
Mythology
[edit]Argalus was the eldest son and heir of KingAmyklasofSparta,[1]possibly by his wife,Diomede,daughter ofLapithes.[2]Through this parentage, he was considered to be the brother ofKing Cynortes(his successor),[3]Hyacinthus,[4]Polyboea,[5]Laodamia[6](orLeanira[7]),Harpalus,[8]Hegesandre,[9]and in other versions, ofDaphne.[10]Argalus was also said to be the father of KingOebalus.[11]In 1320 BC, he foundedAcriae.[12]
Notes
[edit]- ^Pausanias,3.1.3
- ^Apollodorus,3.10.3
- ^Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
- ^Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
- ^Pausanias,3.19.4
- ^Pausanias,10.9.5
- ^Apollodorus,3.9.1
- ^Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
- ^ScholiaonHomer,Odyssey4.10;Pherecydes,fr. 132
- ^Parthenius,Erotica Pathemata15
- ^Dictys Cretensis,1.9
- ^"Chapter 28 - Bronze Age History of Laconia".www.actv.ne.jp.Retrieved2024-04-27.
References
[edit]- Apollodorus,The Librarywith an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Dictys Cretensis,from The Trojan War.The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete andDares the Phrygiantranslated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Love Romancestranslated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1.Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.