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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Wife of the legendary Spartan king Aristodemus and mother of the twins EURYSTHENES and PROCLES, progenitors of the two royal houses of SPARTA. Argeia attempts to conceal their order of birth so that both may become king, but the Spartans eventually discover it by watching her treatment of the boys, on the advice of a clever MESSENIAN named PANITES (6.52). Herodotus reports (legousi, “they say”) that through her father AUTESION she counted POLYNEICES as an ancestor. This lineage created a Theban, non‐DORIAN ancestry for the Spartan kings (Hornblower and Pelling 2017, 154), and a connection with ARGOS via Polyneices’ wife (also named Argeia), daughter of the Argive king ADRASTUS SON OF TALAUS (Scott 2005, 225).

SEE ALSO: Aristodemus son of Aristomachus; Deception; Monarchy; Theras; Women in the Histories