Labotas

Family: Sparta · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 2

In Book 3, Chapter 2, Labotas is identified as “the son of Echestratus” and as a king at Sparta. During his minority, Lycurgus served as his regent. The succession continued with Doryssus, Labotas’s son, followed by Agesilaus, son of Doryssus.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 2

• parent: Echestratus “Labotas the son of Echestratus was king at Sparta.”
• guardian: Lycurgus “had during his minority the famous legislator Lycurgus as his Regent”
• child: Doryssus “those of this family who succeeded one another as kings, viz. Doryssus the son of Labotas and Agesilaus the son of Doryssus”

Book 4 · Chapter 4

• child: Doryssus “the son of Doryssus, the son of Labotas”
• parent: Echestratus “the son of Labotas, the son of Echestratus”

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