Sparta

A daughter of Eurotas by Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice.1 From her the city of Sparta was believed to have derived its name.2 She was represented on a tripod at Amyclae.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 10.3.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 1.3; Scholiast on Euripides' Orestes, 615.
  3. ibid. iii, 18.5.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.