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King of Sparta
In
Greek mythology, King Argalus (
Ancient Greek: Ἄργαλος) was a leader of the
Lacedaemonid
Greeks from the age of legend, now treated as being the
Bronze Age in
Greece.
Mythology
Argalus was the eldest son and heir of King
Amyklas of
Sparta,
[1] possibly by his wife,
Diomede, daughter of
Lapithes.
[2] Through this parentage, he was considered to be the brother of
King Cynortes (his successor),
[3]
Hyacinthus,
[4]
Polyboea,
[5]
Laodamia
[6] (or
Leanira
[7]),
Harpalus,
[8]
Hegesandre,
[9] and in other versions, of
Daphne.
[10] Argalus was also said to be the father of King
Oebalus.
[11] In 1320 BC, he founded
Acriae.
[12]
Notes
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Pausanias, 3.1.3
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^
Apollodorus, 3.10.3
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^ Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
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^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
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^ Pausanias,
3.19.4
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^ Pausanias,
10.9.5
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^ Apollodorus,
3.9.1
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^ Pausanias, 7.18.5 (
Achaica)
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^
Scholia on
Homer,
Odyssey 4.10;
Pherecydes, fr. 132
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^
Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
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^
Dictys Cretensis, 1.9
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"Chapter 28 - Bronze Age History of Laconia". www.actv.ne.jp. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
References
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website.
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Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and
Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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