Eunomos (Sparta)
Eunomos ( Greek Εὔνομος ) is a king of Sparta in Greek mythology .
In the older list of Spartan kings handed down by Herodotus , he is positioned between Polydectes and Charillos , in the later one after the process of Simonides between Prytanis and Polydectes , in Apollodorus between Prytanis and Charillos. According to Apollodorus, he is said to have ruled the kingship for 45 years, which Alfred von Gutschmid dated 929–883 BC. Calculated. He was inserted into the list of Eurypontids in order to be able to bring the legislature Lykurgos with the royal house in a genealogical connection, and he is from Simonides to brother, from Plutarch , Pausanias a . a. made the father of Lycurgus. Plutarch states that Eunomus was stabbed to death as a peacemaker in unrest that preceded the Lycurgian reforms .
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literature
- Paul Poralla: Prosopography of the Lacedaemonians up to the time of Alexander the great . Dissertation Breslau 1913, p. 56 ( full text ).
- Benedikt Niese : Eunomos 7th In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1133.
Remarks
- ↑ Herodotus, Historien 8, 131.
- ↑ Plutarch, Lykurgos 1; Pausanias, traveling in Greece 3, 3, 7.
- ↑ Apollodorus in Eusebius of Caesarea , Chronicle 1, 223.
- ↑ Plutarch, Lykurgos 2, 3.