Eurydice (daughter of Lacedaemon)
Eurydice ( Greek Εὐρυδίκη ) was in Greek mythology the daughter of the Spartan king Lacedaemon and his wife Sparte , the daughter of the Laconic king Eurotas . Eurydice's brother was named Amyklas and was the mythical founder of the city of Amyklai . Eurydice married Akrisios , king of Argos, and gave birth to a daughter, Danae . Eurydice is said to have donated a temple to the Argive Hera at Sparta .
literature
- Otto Kern : Eurydice 10). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1325.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 2, 2 and 3, 10, 3; Pausanias 3, 13, 8; Pherecydes at Scholia to Apollonios of Rhodes 4, 1091; Scholia of Homer , Iliad 14, 319.
- ^ Pausanias 3:13 , 8.