In Greek mythology, Timandra was a Spartan princess and later queen of Arcadia. She was a daughter of King Tyndareus and Leda, and sister to figures such as Castor and Pollux, Helen, and Clytemnestra. She married Echemus, king of Arcadia, but, like Clytemnestra, proved unfaithful and deserted her husband — an infidelity that ancient poets traced to a curse laid by Aphrodite upon the daughters of Tyndareus.
Adapted from Wikipedia, "Timandra (mythology)" · CC BY-SA 4.0
I.Identity
In Greek mythology, Timandra (Ancient Greek: Τιμάνδρα) was a Spartan princess and later queen of Arcadia.
II.Family
Timandra was one of the daughters of King Tyndareus and Leda. Her mother Leda was a daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron in Aetolia. Her siblings included the twins Castor and Pollux, Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, Phoebe, and Philonoe.
She married Echemus, king of Arcadia, and bore him a son, Ladocus. Through Phyleus, son of King Augeas of Elis, she is named as a possible mother of Meges, an Achaean leader during the Trojan War. She may also have been the mother of Phyleus' daughter Eurydameia, who in turn bore Euchenor and Cleitus by the seer Polyeidus.
III.Mythology
Like Clytemnestra, Timandra was unfaithful: she deserted Echemus for Phyleus, the king of Dulichium.
Ancient sources attribute her infidelity to a curse of Aphrodite. According to Stesichorus and Hesiod, Tyndareus once omitted Aphrodite while offering sacrifice, and in anger the goddess decreed that his daughters should be twice and thrice wed and deserters of their husbands.