Eurydamidas
Family: Sparta · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 9
Life events
- Cleomenes poisoned Eurydamidas and seized authority over Sparta.(Book 2 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) Epiclidas
- “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, and grandson of Cleonymus, when he succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta, imitated Pausanias in desiring to be an autocrat, and not to obey the established laws. And as he was more impetuous than Pausanias, and brave as a lion, he quickly moulded everything to his will by his sagacity and boldness, and took off by poison Eurydamidas, the king of the other royal branch, while quite a lad, and vested the power of the Ephors in his brother Epiclidas”
Book 3 · Chapter 10
- elder kin: Eudamidas “All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”
- parent: Agis (son of Eudamidas) “All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.