Archidamus (son of Theopompus)
Also known as: Archidamus · Family: Eurypontidæ · Role: prince · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 7
Archidamus, son of Theopompus and a prince of the Eurypontidæ, died before his father. His death grieved Theopompus, who took no part in the events described in Book 3, Chapter 7, “still more from sorrow at the death of his son Archidamus.”
Archidamus left a son, Zeuxidamus, and when he died in his father’s lifetime, the kingdom passed to his grandson.
Relationship record
Life events
- Archidamus (son of Theopompus) died, causing Theopompus grief.(Book 3 · Chapter 7)
- With: Theopompus
- “Theopompus himself took no part in this, partly from old age, but still more from sorrow at the death of his son Archidamus.”
- Archidamus died before Theopompus, and the kingdom passed to his grandson Zeuxidamus.(Book 4 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Theopompus Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus)
- “Archidamus the son of Theopompus died in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson.”
Book 3 · Chapter 7
- parent: Theopompus “Theopompus himself took no part in this, partly from old age, but still more from sorrow at the death of his son Archidamus”
- child: Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus) “Not that Archidamus died childless, for he left a son Zeuxidamus”
Book 4 · Chapter 15
- child: Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus) “and of the other family Anaxidamus the son of Zeuxidamus, the son of Archidamus, the son of Theopompus”
- parent: Theopompus “and of the other family Anaxidamus the son of Zeuxidamus, the son of Archidamus, the son of Theopompus”
- younger kin: Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus) (Zeuxidamus is identified as Archidamus's grandson.) “because Archidamus the son of Theopompus died in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.