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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Legendary Spartan king, descendant of HERACLES and grandfather of the two kings who gave their names to the Spartan royal houses (Agis and EURYP(H)ON). Herodotus reports that the Spartans—“contrary to what the poets say” (see Beck‐Schachter 2016, 122–23)—claim that it was Aristodemus himself, not his sons EURYSTHENES and PROCLES, who led them to the site of SPARTA (cf. Paus. 3.1.6; Fowler 2013, 335–36). He died soon after his wife ARGEIA gave birth to the twins (Hdt. 6.52.1–2; cf. 4.147.2). His name appears in the king‐lists Herodotus provides for LEONIDAS (7.204) and LEOTYCHIDES II (8.131.2).

SEE ALSO: Agis son of Eurysthenes; Aristomachus; Heracleidae