Procles
Family: Spartan royal family · Role: twin son of Aristodemus · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1
As twin sons of Aristodemus, Procles and Eurysthenes were unlike in most respects and “hated one another very cordially.” Yet in Book 3, Chapter 1, they joined their regent and maternal uncle Theras in founding a colony at Calliste; the brothers vied with each other to carry out his wishes, though they remained at odds in other respects. Theras renamed the island after himself. By Book 3, Chapter 7, Procles had a son, Sous.
Relationship record
Life events
- Procles, Eurysthenes, and Theras established a colony at Calliste, which Theras renamed after himself.(Book 3 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Calliste)
- With: Eurysthenes 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 Eurysthenes “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 Eurysthenes “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 Eurysthenes “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 (Procles 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 7
- parent: Aristodemus (father of Procles) “Procles the son of Aristodemus had a son called Sous”
- child: Sous “Procles the son of Aristodemus had a son called Sous”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.