Argalus

In Greek mythology, King Argalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργαλος) was a leader of the Lacedaemonid Greeks from the age of legend, now treated as being the Bronze Age in Greece.

Family

Argalus was the eldest son and heir of King Amyklas of Sparta[1], possibly by his wife, Diomede, daughter of Lapithes. Through this parentage, he was considered to be the brother of King Cynortes (his successor), Hyacinthus[2], Polyboea[3], Laodamia[4] (or Leanira[5]), and in other versions, of Daphne[6]. Argalus was also said to be the father of King Oebalus[7].

Regnal titles
Preceded by Amyclas	King of Sparta ? - ? BC	Succeeded by Cynortas

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.1.3
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.3
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.19.4
4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.9.5
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.1
6. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
7. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 1.9

References

• Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.