InGreek mythology,Timandra (Ancient Greek: Τιμάνδρα) was aSpartan princess and later queen ofArcadia.

Timandra was one of the daughters of KingTyndareus^[1] andLeda,^[2] daughter of KingThestius ofPleuron,Aetolia. Thus, she was the sister of the twinsCastor and Pollux,Helen,Clytemnestra,Phoebe andPhilonoe.

Timandra marriedEchemus, the king ofArcadia and bore him a sonLadocus.^[3] ByPhyleus, son of KingAugeas ofElis, she was one of the possible mothers ofMeges,^[4] anAchaean Leader during theTrojan War. Timandra might be the mother of Phyleus’ daughterEurydameia who begotEuchenor andCleitus by the seerPolyeidus.^[5]

LikeClytemnestra, she was also unfaithful and deserted Echemus for Phyleus, the king ofDulichium.

This can be explained by the following account withStesichorus andHesiod as the authorities:

"Steischorus says that while sacrificing to the gods Tyndareus forgotAphrodite and that the goddess was angry and made his daughters twice and thrice wed and deserters of their husbands . . . And Hesiod also says:

"And laughter-loving Aphrodite felt jealous when she looked on them and cast them into evil report. Then Timandra deserted Echemus and went and came to Phyleus, dear to the deathless gods; and even so Clytaemnestra deserted god-likeAgamemnon and lay withAegisthus and chose a worse mate; and even so Helen dishonoured the couch of golden-hairedMenelaus."^[6]

• 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.
• Hesiod,Catalogue of Women fromHomeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.Online version at theio.com
• 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.

• March, J.Cassell's Dictionary Of Classical Mythology. London, 1999.ISBN 0-304-35161-X

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