In Greek mythology, Sparta (Doric Greek Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek Σπάρτη, Spártē) was the mythical queen of ancient Sparta, the city said to have been named in her honour. She was the daughter of King Eurotas of Laconia and the wife of Lacedaemon, and is counted as a member of the early Spartan royal house. Through her marriage to Lacedaemon she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice and an ancestor of the later Spartan line.
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I.Family
Sparta was the daughter of King Eurotas of Laconia and Cleta. Pausanias also describes Tiasa as being a daughter of Eurotas.
By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and of Eurydice, the wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo and Zephyrus. She was also an ancestor of King Tyndareus of Sparta and his brother Icarius, and of their children Clytemnestra, Castor and Penelope.
II.Mythology
According to traditions recorded by Pausanias, Sparta's father, having no male heirs, bequeathed his kingdom to Lacedaemon. When Lacedaemon became king, he changed the name of the land and its inhabitants to Lacedaemon and Lacedaemonians, respectively, and he founded the city of Sparta, which was named after his wife.
Sparta was represented on a sacrificial tripod at Amyclae.
III.Family tree
Sparta is placed within the wider Argive genealogy of Greek mythology, linking the early Laconian royal house through her descendants to the broader lineage of Spartan and Argive figures.