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Argalus

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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

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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]

Regnal titles
Preceded by King of Sparta
? - ? BC
Succeeded by

Notes

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  1. ^ Pausanias, 3.1.3
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
  5. ^ Pausanias, 3.19.4
  6. ^ Pausanias, 10.9.5
  7. ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.1
  8. ^ Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
  9. ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.10; Pherecydes, fr. 132
  10. ^ Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
  11. ^ Dictys Cretensis, 1.9
  12. ^ "Chapter 28 - Bronze Age History of Laconia". www.actv.ne.jp. Retrieved 2024-04-27.

References

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