Alcmenes

For others with this name, see Alcamenes (disambiguation).

Alcmenes (Greek: Ἀλκμένης) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the king of Sparta, of the Agiad dynasty, from c. 740 to c. 700 BC.¹

According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Messenian War, but died before its 4th year. In his reign Helos was taken, a place near the mouth of the Eurotas, the last independent hold most likely of the old Achaean population, and the supposed origin of the term "helot".²³⁴

He succeeded his father Teleclus and was succeeded by his son Polydorus.

References

^ Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867). "Alcamenes". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 96.
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3
^ Herodotus, vii. 204
^ Plutarch, Apophth. Lac.

Preceded by Teleclus	Agiad King of Sparta c. 740 – c. 700 BC	Succeeded by Polydorus

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[DGRBM-1] Clough, Arthur Hugh (1867). "Alcamenes". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 96.

[2] Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3

[3] Herodotus, vii. 204

[4] Plutarch, Apophth. Lac.

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