Zeuxidamos

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Zeuxidamos ( Greek  Ζευξίδαμος ) was a mythical king of Sparta , supposedly at the end of the 8th century BC. Chr.

Zeuxidamos was considered a Spartan king from the house of the Eurypontids , son of Archidamos and father of Anaxidamos ; is said to be towards the end of the 8th century BC. His successor to his grandfather Theopompus is not mentioned in Herodotus , but only appears in the list of Spartan kings handed down by Pausanias , in which he was probably only included in the 4th century BC. Was inserted.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Herodotus, Historien 8, 131.
  2. ^ Pausanias, Journeys in Greece 3, 7, 6; 4, 15, 3.