Eurotas

This article is about a mythical king of southern Greece. For other uses of Eurotas, see Eurotas (disambiguation).
Eurotas
King of Laconia[1]
Member of the Sparta Royal Family
Eurotas, from the modern monument of Leonidas I, Thermopylae
PredecessorMyles
SuccessorLacedaemon
AbodeLaconia
Genealogy
Parents(a) Myles
(b) Lelex and Cleocharia
(c) Lelex and Taygete
Siblingsunknown
Consort?Clete
ChildrenSparta and Tiasa

In Greek mythology, Eurotas (/jʊəˈroʊtəs/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώτας) was a king of Laconia.

Family

Eurotas with his daughter Sparta

Eurotas was the son of King Myles of Laconia and grandson of Lelex, eponymous ancestor of the Leleges.[2] The Bibliotheca gave a slight variant of the mythological generation of Eurotas, who was described as the son of Lelex, born from the ground, by his wife Cleocharia.[3] In some accounts, his mother was called Taygete instead.[4] Eurotas had no male heir but he did have two daughters Sparta and Tiasa[5] by Clete[citation needed].

Mythology

Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus and Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus was named, according to Pausanias.[6] This Lacedaemon married his daughter Sparta and renamed the state after his wife.

Pausanias says: "It was Eurotas who channelled away the marsh-water from the plains by cutting through to the sea, and when the land was drained he called the river which was left running there the Eurotas."[6] The "cutting through" is seen by Pausanias’ translator and commentator, Peter Levy, S.J., as an explanation of Eurotas (or Vrodamas) Canyon, a ravine north of Skala where the river has cut through the foothills of Taygetus after changing direction to the west of the valley.[7]

Regnal titles
Preceded by King of Sparta
Pre-Dorian 		Succeeded by

Eurotas in art

River gods are typically represented in Greek art, such as coin motifs, as figures with the bodies of bulls and the faces of humans. If only the face appears, they might wear horns and have wavy hair or be accompanied by fish. Claudius Aelianus states that the Eurotas and other rivers are like bulls.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Malkin, Irad (1994). Myth and territory in the Spartan Mediterranean (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 6.
  2. ^ Pausanias, 3.1.1.
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3
  4. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.15; Olympian Odes 6.46; Scholia ad Lycophron, 886
  5. ^ Pausanias, 3.18.6
  6. ^ a b Pausanias, 3.1.2
  7. ^ Pausanias (1971). Pausanias Guide to Greece. Vol. 2, Southern Greece. Translated by Peter Levi. Penguin Books. p. 10 Note 3.
  8. ^ Collignon, Maxime; Harrison, Jane E. (Translator, Contributor) (1899). Manual of Mythology in Relation to Greek Art (PDF) (New and Cheaper Revised ed.). London: H. Grevel & Co. p. 204. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-08-23. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) on Aelian, Variae Historiae, 2.33.

References

  • Media related to Eurotas at Wikimedia Commons

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