Eurysthenes
Family: Sparta · Role: twin son of Aristodemus · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1
In Book 3, Chapter 1, Eurysthenes is named as one of the twin sons of Aristodemus, alongside Procles; they were “in most respects very unlike one another.” Though they hated each other and were otherwise at variance, they joined Theras, their Argive mother’s brother and Regent, in establishing a colony at Calliste. They vied with each other in carrying out Theras’s wishes, and he renamed the island after himself.
By Book 3, Chapter 2, Eurysthenes had a son, Agis. In Book 3, Chapter 6, Leonidas is described as the only male left of Eurysthenes’ family.
Relationship record
Life events
- Procles, Eurysthenes, and Theras established a colony at Calliste, which Theras renamed after himself.(Book 3 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Calliste)
- With: Procles Theras Membliarus
- “they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste, Theras hoping that the descendants of Membliarus would abandon the kingdom of their own free will, as in fact they did”
Book 3 · Chapter 1
- parent: Aristodemus (father of 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.”
- siblings with Procles “The names of his two sons were Procles and Eurysthenes, who though they were twins were in most respects very unlike one another.”
- enemies with Procles “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- rivals with Procles “And Procles and Eurysthenes vied with one another in their zeal for carrying out the wishes of Theras, but in all other respects were at variance together.”
- elder kin: Theras “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- guardian: Theras “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- with Theras (Eurysthenes jointly combined with Theras to establish a colony.) “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste”
Book 3 · Chapter 2
- parent: Aristodemus (father of Procles) “Eurysthenes, the eldest of the sons of Aristodemus, had a son Agis they say:”
- child: Agis (son of Eurysthenes) “Eurysthenes, the eldest of the sons of Aristodemus, had a son Agis they say:”
Book 3 · Chapter 6
- with Leonidas (Leonidas belonged to the family or lineage of Eurysthenes.) “as now Leonidas was the only male left of the family of Eurysthenes”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.