Eurotas

Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1

In Book 3, Chapter 1, Eurotas succeeded his father Myles in the kingdom. He diverted the stagnant water of the plain to the sea, forming a river that he named the Eurotas.

Eurotas had no male children, so he left the kingdom to Lacedæmon. Sparta was his daughter, and Tiasa was also thought to be his daughter.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eurotas diverted stagnant water to the sea, creating and naming the Eurotas River.(Book 3 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Laconia)
  • “He diverted to the sea by a canal all the stagnant water that filled the plain, and as it flowed to the sea in mighty volume and became a noble river, he called it the Eurotas.”

Book 3 · Chapter 1

• parent: Myles “But on the death of Myles his son Eurotas succeeded him in the kingdom.”
• child: Sparta “And Lacedæmon married Sparta the daughter of Eurotas, and when he succeeded to the kingdom he first gave the country and inhabitants his own name, and then built and gave his wife’s name to the city Sparta, which is so called even to our day.”
• with Lacedæmon (Eurotas left his kingdom to Lacedæmon.) “As he had no male children he left the kingdom to Lacedæmon, whose mother was Taygete, (who gave her name to the mountain Taygetus), and reputed father Zeus.”

Book 3 · Chapter 18

• child: Tiasa “Tiasa was they think the daughter of Eurotas”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.