Procles is one of the twin sons of Aristodemus by Argeia, daughter of Autesion; at the division of the conquered Peloponnese by lot he and his brother Eurysthenes together drew Lacedaemon, taking Sparta as joint kings.1
While the Heraclid host lay at Naupactus in Locris, Aristodemus was killed by a thunderbolt, leaving twin sons, Eurysthenes and Procles, borne to him by Argeia, daughter of Autesion.2
The manner of Aristodemus' death is told otherwise. Pausanias records that some say he died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnese, while those who would glorify his fate hold that Apollo shot him for failing to consult the oracle.3
When the conquered land was apportioned by lot among Argos, Lacedaemon, and Messene, Temenus and the two sons of Aristodemus, Procles and Eurysthenes, cast their stones; Lacedaemon fell to the twins together, while Temenus took Argos and Cresphontes won Messene by a trick.4
Pausanias names the brothers Procles and Eurysthenes and adds that, though twins, they were bitter enemies; even so the two joined to help their maternal uncle and guardian Theras, son of Autesion and brother of their mother Argeia, found his colony. Elsewhere Pausanias makes Eurysthenes the elder of the pair.5
Procles named his son Sous, whose son Eurypon, they say, reached such renown that the house, until then called the Procleidae, came to be named the Eurypontidae after him.6
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