Eurypon

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Eurypon, otherwise called Eurytion (Ευρυπών, Ευρυτίων), grandson of Procles, was the third king of that house at Sparta, and thenceforward gave it the name of Eurypontidae.

Plutarch talks of his having relaxed the kingly power, and played the demagogue; and Polyaenus relates a war with the Arcadians of Mantineia under his command. (Paus. iii. 7. § 1; Plut. Lyc. 2; Polyaen. ii. 13.)

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

Preceded by Soos

Eurypontid King of Sparta ?–890 BC

Succeeded by Prytanis