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Eurysthenes
In Greek mythology, Eurysthenes (, "widely ruling") was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus and Argia. His twin was Procles. Together they received the land of Lacedaemon after Cresphontes, Temenus and Aristodemus defeated Tisamenus, the last Achaean king of the Peloponnesus. Eurysthenes married Lathria, daughter of Thersander, King of Kleonoe, sister of his sister-in-law Anaxandra, and was the father of his successor, Agis I
Eurysthenes (disambiguation)
Eurysthenes may refer to:
- Eurysthenes, a Heraclid, one of the two first kings of Sparta, father of the founder of the Agiad line
- Eurysthenes, one of the sons of Aegyptus killed by his wife, one of the Danaïdes
- Eurysthenes (Pergamon), a descendant of the deposed Spartan king, Demaratus
- Adhemarius eurysthenes, a species of moth