- Information
- region in the Peloponnese
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Lelegia (alt. Laconia) 🌍 Lacedaimon (alt. Laconia)
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Lelex (Laconian)
- Settled by
- 👥 the Achaians
- Settled from
- 🌍 Phthia (Thessaly)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Amyclas (Laconian) 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cynortas 👤 Eurotas (eponym) 👤 Eurysthenes 👤 Hippocoon (Spartan) 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Lacedaimon 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Procles (Heraclid) 👤 Lelex (Laconian) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Tisamenos (Spartan) 👤 Tyndareos 👤 Myles 👤 Agis 👤 Argalos 👤 Archandros 👤 Architeles (s. of Achaios) 👤 Soos 👤 Agesilaus 👤 Doryssos 👤 Labotas 👤 Echestratos 👤 Eurypon 👤 Prytanis (Spartan) 👤 Eunomos (Spartan) 👤 Polydectes (Spartan)
- Conquered by
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Eurysthenes 👤 Procles (Heraclid) 👥 the Heracleidai
- Related Entities
- 👤 Achaios 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Amyclas (Laconian) 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cynortas 👤 Dionysos 👤 Eurotas (eponym) 👤 Eurysthenes 🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 👤 Heracles 👤 Hippocoon (Spartan) 👤 Iphitos (Oichalian) 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Peisistratos (Pylian I) 👤 Helen 👤 Lacedaimon 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Procles (Heraclid) 👤 Lelex (Laconian) 👤 Leucothea (goddess) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Odysseus 👤 Telemachos 👤 Tisamenos (Spartan) 👤 Tyndareos 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Helos (Laconia) 🌍 Messenia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Phthia (Thessaly) 👥 the Achaians 🌍 the Argolid (Peloponnese) 🌍 Heniochia (Pontos) 👤 Diocles (Pheraian) 👤 Orsilochos (Pheraian I) 🌍 Pherai (Messenia) 🌍 Lelegia (alt. Laconia) 👤 Myles 👤 Polycaon (Messenian) 👤 Messene 👤 Agis 👤 Argalos 👤 Archandros 👤 Architeles (s. of Achaios) 👤 Gras 👤 Praxandros 🌍 Lapethos (Cyprus) 🌍 Achaia (Peloponnese) 👤 Patreus 👤 Penthilos (s. of Orestes) 👤 Preugenes 👤 Soos 👤 Theras 👤 Agesilaus 👤 Doryssos 👤 Labotas 👤 Echestratos 👤 Zarex (Laconian) 🌍 Lacedaimon (alt. Laconia) 🌍 Patrai (Achaia) 🌍 Aiolis (Asia Minor) 🌍 Pharis (Laconia) 👤 Eurypon 👤 Prytanis (Spartan) 👤 Eunomos (Spartan) 👤 Polydectes (Spartan) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 👥 the Heracleidai 👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese 👤 Molpia (Boiotian) 👤 Hippo (Boiotian) 👤 Phryrarchidas 👤 Parthenios (Laconian) 🌍 Old Las (Laconia) 🌍 Triphylia 👤 Philonomos 🌍 Aigys (Laconia) 🌍 Tetrapolis (Attica) 👥 the Descendants of the Argonauts 🌍 Thera (city) 👤 Labros (dog of Actaion) 👤 Argiodus (dog) 👤 Rhecas 👤 Amphistratos
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 2.16 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.30 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.7.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.8.4 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 90-114 📖 Pausanias 3.1.1 📖 Pausanias 3.1.2 📖 Pausanias 3.1.3 📖 Pausanias 3.1.5 📖 Pausanias 3.2.3 📖 Pausanias 3.2.4 📖 Pausanias 3.12.9 📖 Pausanias 3.16.7 📖 Pausanias 1.38.4 📖 Pausanias 5.1.1 📖 Pausanias 7.1.5 📖 Pausanias 7.1.7 📖 Pausanias 7.6.2 📖 Pausanias 9.13.5 📖 Pausanias 4.1.1-4.1.2 📖 Pausanias 3.2.1-3.2.2 📖 Pausanias 3.1.4-3.1.5 📖 Pausanias 3.7.1-3.7.2 📖 Pausanias 2.18.7-2.18.9 📖 Pausanias 9.14.2-9.14.3 📖 Strabo 8.5.4-8.5.5 📖 Strabo 8.5.6 📖 Strabo 8.5.8 📖 Strabo 8.6.10 📖 Strabo 8.7.1 📖 Strabo 8.3.19 📖 Strabo 8.3.28-8.3.29 📖 Strabo 8.8.5 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138-3.252 📖 Strabo 14.6.3 📖 Strabo 11.2.12
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Lycophron, Alexandra Pausanias Strabo Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.477-3.497 📖 Homer, Odyssey 21.1-21.41 📖 Hellanicos fr. 116 Fowler 📖 Euripides fr. 727e Collard-Cropp 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 117 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 18b
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👥 the Charites 👤 Cresphontes 👤 Eurysthenes 👤 Iapetos 👤 Hippocoon (Spartan) 👤 Icarios (Spartan) 👤 Iphigeneia 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Orpheus 👤 Lacedaimon 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Procles (Heraclid) 👤 Tyndareos 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Tauris 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Messenia (Peloponnese) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Artemis (Taurian) 👤 Bouphagos (eponym) 🌍 Therapne (Laconia) 👤 Cleta 👤 Phaenna 👤 Thornax (eponym) 🌍 Pellana (Laconia) 🏛️ Spring Messeis (unlocatable) 🏛️ Spring Polydeuceia (Laconia) 🏛️ the Temple of Athena Asia at Old Las (Laconia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Helen (Therapne) 🏛️ the Tomb of Menelaos (Therapne) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta 🌍 the Sanctuary of Demeter Chthonia at Sparta 🌍 the Sanctuary of Athena Asia in Colchis
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 4.5.1 📖 Pausanias 3.14.5 📖 Pausanias 3.16.7 📖 Pausanias 3.24.7 📖 Pausanias 3.20.1 📖 Pausanias 8.27.17 📖 Pausanias 3.1.4-3.1.5 📖 Pausanias 3.19.9-3.19.13 📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11 📖 Pausanias 9.35.1-9.35.7