Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus)
Also known as: Zeuxidamus · Family: Eurypontidæ · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 7
In Book 4, Chapter 15, Archidamus died before his father Theopompus, and the kingdom passed to Archidamus’s grandson Zeuxidamus. As the account puts it, “the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson.” Earlier, Book 3, Chapter 7 names Zeuxidamus as the son of Archidamus and records that he was succeeded in the kingdom by his son Anaxidamus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Archidamus died before Theopompus, and the kingdom passed to his grandson Zeuxidamus.(Book 4 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Archidamus (son of Theopompus) Theopompus
- “Archidamus the son of Theopompus died in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson.”
Book 3 · Chapter 7
- parent: Archidamus (son of Theopompus) “Not that Archidamus died childless, for he left a son Zeuxidamus”
- child: Anaxidamus “who was succeeded in the kingdom by his son Anaxidamus”
Book 4 · Chapter 15
- child: Anaxidamus “and of the other family Anaxidamus the son of Zeuxidamus, the son of Archidamus, the son of Theopompus”
- parent: Archidamus (son of Theopompus) “and of the other family Anaxidamus the son of Zeuxidamus, the son of Archidamus, the son of Theopompus”
- with Theopompus (grandparent-grandchild relationship) “because Archidamus the son of Theopompus died in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson”
- elder kin: Archidamus (son of Theopompus) (Zeuxidamus is identified as Archidamus's grandson.) “because Archidamus the son of Theopompus died in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom devolved upon Zeuxidamus his grandson”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.