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Agelaus

Ἀγέλαος

(Ἀγέλαος).

1. A son of Heracles and Omphale, and the founder of the house of Croesus. (Apollod. 2.7.8.) Herodotus (1.7) derives the family of Croesus from one Alcaeus, and. Diodorus (4.31) from one Cleolaus, while he calls the son of Heracles and Omphale Larmus, and others Laomedes. (Ant. Lib. 2; Palaephat. de Incred. 45.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.