King of Sparta
InGreek mythology,King Argalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργαλος) was a leader of theLacedaemonidGreeks from the age of legend, now treated as being theBronze Age inGreece.
Argalus was the eldest son and heir of KingAmyklas ofSparta,[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]
- ^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)
- ^Scholia onHomer,Odyssey 4.10;Pherecydes, fr. 132
- ^Parthenius,Erotica Pathemata 15
- ^Dictys Cretensis, 1.9
- ^"Chapter 28 - Bronze Age History of Laconia".www.actv.ne.jp. Retrieved2024-04-27.
- 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.
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War.The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete andDares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Love Romances translated 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 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.
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