Teleclus
Family: Sparta · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 2
Teleclus was the son of Archelaus and king of Sparta. During his reign, the Lacedæmonians conquered and razed Amyclæ, Pharis, and Geranthræ, then, not long afterward, the Messenians killed him in the temple of Artemis at Limnæ.
After Teleclus’s death, his son Alcamenes succeeded him. In the second year of the ninth Olympiad, Alcamenes led the capture of Amphea, where the Lacedæmonians killed the Messenians they found.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Lacedæmonians conquered and razed three Achaean cities.(Book 3 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Amyclæ, Pharis and Geranthræ)
- “In his reign the Lacedæmonians took in war the neighbouring cities of Amyclæ and Pharis and Geranthræ, which were then in the possession of the Achæans, and razed them to the ground”
- Teleclus was killed by the Messenians in Artemis’s temple.(Book 3 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Limnæ)
- “And not long after all this Teleclus was killed by the Messenians in the temple of Artemis in the town of Limnæ”
- The Lacedæmonians captured Amphea under Alcamenes and killed the Messenians found there.(Book 4 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Amphea)
- With: Alcamenes
- “After taking this oath they made a night-attack on Amphea, having appointed Alcamenes the son of Teleclus as their General.”
Book 3 · Chapter 2
- parent: Archelaus “And the son of Archelaus was Teleclus.”
- child: Alcamenes “And after the death of Teleclus Alcamenes his son succeeded him”
Book 4 · Chapter 4
- parent: Archelaus “their king Teleclus, (the son of Archelaus, the son of Agesilaus, the son of Doryssus, the son of Labotas, the son of Echestratus, the son of Agis,) was slain”
- child: Alcamenes “when Alcamenes the son of Teleclus was king at Lacedæmon”
Book 4 · Chapter 5
- child: Alcamenes “having appointed Alcamenes the son of Teleclus as their General.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.