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Mythical queen of ancient Sparta
In
Greek mythology , Sparta (
Doric Greek : Σπάρτα , romanized: Spártā ;
Attic Greek :
Σπάρτη , romanized: Spártē ) was the ancient Queen of
Sparta , which was named in her honour.
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Family
Sparta was one of two daughters of King
Eurotas of
Laconia and
Clete , with the other being
Tiasa .
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[2]
By her husband,
Lacedaemon , Sparta became the mother of
Amyclas and
Eurydice , wife of King
Acrisius of
Argos , and the grandmother of
Hyacinthus , who was loved by
Apollo and
Zephyrus .
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[4] She was also an ancestor of
King Tyndareus of Sparta and his brother
Icarius and their children
Clytemnestra ,
Castor and
Penelope .
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Mythology
According to traditions recorded by
Pausanias , Sparta's father having no male heirs bequeathed his kingdom to Lacedaemon. When he became king, he changed the name of the land and the inhabitants to Lacedaemon and Lacedaemonians, respectively, and he founded the
City of Sparta , which was named after his wife.
[1]
Sparta was represented on a
sacrificial tripod at
Amyclae .
Family tree
Notes
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"Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, chapter 1, section 2" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, chapter 18, section 6" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Apollodorus, Library, book 1, chapter 3, section 3" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, chapter 1, section 3" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, chapter 1, section 4" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
References
Apollodorus , The Library with 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 .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with 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.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .