Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cleocharia.
The gallery
Sparti in the Eurotas valley flanked by Taygetus
Ulrich Still (photograph), 2005
A view of modern Sparti in the Eurotas valley with Mount Taygetus rising behind — the living geography Apollodorus ties to Cleocharia the Naiad, who bore Eurotas to the earth-born Lelex. The river that still drains the Spartan plain carries the son's name through the land his daughter Sparta wedded to Lacedaemon.