Alcmenes

Alcmenes

Alcmenes

King of Sparta

For other uses, see Alcamenes (disambiguation).

Alcmenes (Greek: Ἀλκμένης) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the 9th king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, from c. 740 to c. 700 BC.[1]

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According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Messenian War, but died before its 4th year. In his reign Helos was taken, a place near the mouth of the Eurotas, the last independent hold of the old Achaean population, and the supposed origin of the term "helot".[2][3][4]

He succeeded his father Teleclus and was succeeded by his son Polydorus.

References

  1. [1]
    Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867). "Alcamenes". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 96. Archived from the original on 2011-01-11.
  2. [2]
    Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3
  3. [3]
    Herodotus, vii. 204
  4. [4]
    Plutarch, Apophth. Lac.
Preceded by Agiad King of Sparta
c. 740 – c. 700 BC		 Succeeded by
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