Aristodemus (father of Procles)

Also known as: Aristodemus · Family: Sparta · Role: father of Procles and Eurysthenes · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1

Life events

Aristodemus died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnese.(Book 3 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Delphi)
- “And they say that Aristodemus died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnese.”
Cresphontes gains possession of Messenia after the lots favor him.(Book 4 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Messenia)
- With: Cresphontes Temenus
- “so that Cresphontes (for his lot came out) got possession in this way of Messenia.”

child: Procles “And in Lacedæmon as Aristodemus had twins there were two royal houses, and they say this was in accordance with the oracle at Delphi.”
child: Eurysthenes “And in Lacedæmon as Aristodemus had twins there were two royal houses, and they say this was in accordance with the oracle at Delphi.”
with Apollo (The passage presents this as an alternative account.) “Some indeed, magnifying their own history, say that Aristodemus was shot with arrows by Apollo”

child: Eurysthenes “Eurysthenes, the eldest of the sons of Aristodemus, had a son Agis they say:”

with Lathria (The unnamed sons of Aristodemus married Lathria and Anaxandra; the individual spouse cannot be identified.) “the sons of Aristodemus who married them were also twins”
with Anaxandra (The unnamed sons of Aristodemus married Lathria and Anaxandra; the individual spouse cannot be identified.) “the sons of Aristodemus who married them were also twins”

married with Argia “Aristodemus had married the daughter of Autesion, whose name was Argia”
rivals with Cresphontes “Cresphontes asked of them Messenia, on the ground that he was older than Aristodemus, who had just died”

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