Editing Sparta (section)

==Mythology==
[[Lacedaemon (mythology)|Lacedaemon]] (Greek: {{lang|grc|Λακεδαίμων}}) was a [[Greek mythology|mythical]] king of Laconia.<ref name=PausaniasIII.1.2>{{harvnb|Pausanias|1918|loc= Description of Greece, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D2 ΙΙΙ.1.2]}}.</ref> The son of [[Zeus]] by the nymph [[Taygete]],  he married [[Sparta (mythology)|Sparta]], the daughter of [[Eurotas (mythology)|Eurotas]], by whom he became the father of [[King Amyclas of Sparta|Amyclas]], [[Eurydice of Argos|Eurydice]], and Asine. As king, he named his country after himself and the city after his wife.<ref name=PausaniasIII.1.2/> He was believed to have built the sanctuary of the [[Charites]], which stood between Sparta and [[Amyclae]], and to have given to those divinities the names of [[Cleta]] and [[Phaenna]]. A [[heroon|shrine]] was erected to him in the neighborhood of [[Therapne]].

[[Tyrtaeus]], an archaic era Spartan writer, is the earliest source to connect the origin myth of the Spartans to the lineage of the hero [[Heracles]]; later authors, such as [[Diodorus Siculus]], Herodotus, and [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], also made mention of Spartans understanding themselves to be descendants of Heracles.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.57-8</ref><ref>Apollodorus, 2.8.2–4</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kennel|first=Nigel|title=Spartans: A New History {{!}} Wiley|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Spartans%3A+A+New+History-p-9781444360530|access-date=3 February 2021|website=Wiley.com|pages=37–39|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>Hdt., 9.26.2</ref>