Cleocharia is a Naiad nymph in Greek mythology, named by Pseudo-Apollodorus as the wife of the earth-born Lelex and mother of Eurotas, the eponym of the Laconian river and ancestor of the Spartan royal line through his daughter Sparta.
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I.Mythology
Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 3.10.3) makes Eurotas a son of Lelex by the Naiad Cleocharia. Pausanias instead inserts Myles between Lelex and Eurotas and does not name Cleocharia.
AT A GLANCE
Greek nameKleocharia (Κλεοχαρία)
Typenymph
Domainsnaiad of Laconia · consort of Lelex · mother of Eurotas
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