Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Procles.
In play
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Procles
Son of Aristodemus, twin of Eurysthenes — legendary founder of the Eurypontid line in Sparta's dual kingship after the Return of the Heracleidae.
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Return of the Heracleidae
The invasion that seats Procles and Eurysthenes in Lacedaemon — the Heraclid twins as origin of Sparta's two royal houses.
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Eurypontid
The royal house traced to Procles — paired forever with the Agiad line descending from his twin Eurysthenes.
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Histories
Herodotus
Herodotus recounts the twin Heraclids and the quarrel that makes Procles' line the junior house — dual kingship explained as fraternal strife.