Pausanias' Description of Greece

Eudamidas

Family: Lacedæmonians · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8

In Book 2, Chapter 8, Eudamidas is identified as king of the Lacedæmonians, with Agis as his son. By Book 3, Chapter 10, Eurydamidas is identified as his grandson.

Relationship record

Book 2 · Chapter 8

  • child: Agis (son of Eudamidas) “But the Lacedæmonians and Agis (the son of Eudamidas) their king were beforehand with them”

Book 3 · Chapter 10

  • child: Agis (son of Eudamidas) “During the reign of Eudamidas the younger one the Lacedæmonians enjoyed peace. All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”
  • younger kin: Eurydamidas “All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”

Book 6 · Chapter 2

Book 7 · Chapter 7

  • child: Agis (son of Eudamidas) “For Pellene an Achæan town was taken by Agis, the son of Eudamidas, King of Sparta, though he was soon driven out again by Aratus and the Sicyonians.”

Book 8 · Chapter 8

Book 8 · Chapter 10

  • child: Agis (son of Eudamidas) (Eudamidas is Agis's father.) “and their king Agis the son of Eudamidas fell.”

Book 8 · Chapter 27

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