Alcmenes

Alcmenes

:"For others with this name, see Alcamenes (disambiguation)."Alcmenes (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλκμένης) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the king of Sparta, of the Agiad dynasty, from c. 740 to c. 700 BC. cite encyclopedia | last = Clough | first = Arthur Hugh | authorlink = Arthur Hugh Clough | title = Alcamenes | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 96 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0105.html ]

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". [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3] [Herodotus, vii. 204] [Plutarch, "Apophth. Lac."]

He succeeded his father Teleclus and was succeeded by Polydorus.

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