Sparta
Σπάρτα
(Σπάρτα), a daughter of Eurotas by Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice. (Apollod. 3.10.3). From her the city of Sparta was believed to have derived its name (Paus. 3.1.3; Schol. Eur. Orest. 615). She was represented on a tripod at Amyclae. (Paus. 3.18.5).
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.