Eurysthenes

Family: Spartan · Role: twin son of Aristodemos; king · First appears: Book 4 · §143–150

Life events

• Argeia gave birth to twin sons, Eurysthenes and Procles.(Book 6 · §50–57)
  • With: Aristodemos Argeia Procles
  • “Then after no long time the wife of Aristodemos, whose name was Argeia,--she was the daughter, they say, of Autesion, the son of Tisamenes, the son of Thersander, the son of Polyneikes,--she, it is said, brought forth twins;”
• The Pythian prophetess advised the Spartans to make both children kings and honour the elder most.(Book 6 · §50–57 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Procles
  • “And the Pythian prophetess bade them regard both children as their kings, but honour most the first in age.”
• The Spartans identified Eurysthenes as the first-born, named the twins, and raised him as the first-born.(Book 6 · §50–57)
  • With: Procles
  • “They took therefore the child which was honoured by its mother and brought it up as the first-born in the public hall, and to it was given the name of Eurysthenes, while the other was called Procles.”

Book 4 · §143–150

• elder kin: Theras “This Theras, who was of the race of Cadmos, was mother's brother to the sons of Aristodemos, Eurysthenes and Procles”
• guardian: Theras “while these sons were yet children, Theras as their guardian held the royal power in Sparta”
• parent: Aristodemos “the sons of Aristodemos, Eurysthenes and Procles”
• siblings with Procles “the sons of Aristodemos, Eurysthenes and Procles”

Book 6 · §50–57

• parent: Aristodemos “while the other was called Procles. These, when they had grown up, both themselves were at variance, they say, with one another, though they were brothers,”
• siblings with Procles “These, when they had grown up, both themselves were at variance, they say, with one another, though they were brothers,”
• rivals with Procles “These, when they had grown up, both themselves were at variance, they say, with one another, though they were brothers”

Book 7 · §197–206

• child: Agis “the Lacedemonian Leonidas son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydoros, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclos, son of Archelaos, son of Hegesilaos, son of Doryssos, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratos, son of Agis, son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemos, son of Aristomachos, son of Cleodaios, son of Hyllos, son of Heracles”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.