Hegesandra Explained

Type:	Greek
Hegesandra
Deity Of:	Princess of Sparta
Abode:	Sparta
Consort:	Argeus
Parents:	Amyclas and Diomede
Siblings:	Argalus, Cynortas, Hyacinthus, Laodamia (or Leanira), Harpalus and ?Polyboea half-sister by Amyclas: ?Daphne
Children:	Melanion, Alector and Boethoos
Member Of:	the Spartan Royal Family
Other Names:	Hegesandre

In Greek mythology, Hegesandra or Hegesandre (Ήγησάνδρην) was a Spartan princess as the daughter of King Amyclas^[1] .

Family

Hegesandra’s possible mother was Diomede, daughter of Lapithes, and thus probably the sister of Argalus,^[2] Cynortes,^[3] Hyacinthus,^[4] Laodamia^[5] (or Leanira^[6]), Harpalus,^[7] Polyboea,^[8] and in other versions, of Daphne.^[9]

Hegesandra married Argeius, son of King Pelops of Pisa. The couple had three sons: Melanion, Alector and Boethoos.^[10]

Notes

1. [Scholia]
2. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
3. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
4. Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
5. Pausanias, 10.9.5
6. Apollodorus, 3.9.1
7. Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
8. Pausanias, 3.19.4
9. [Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]
10. Pherecydes, fr. 132 named all three children of the couple, Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 4.22 mentioned both Alector and Boethoos as the sons while on 4.10 listed only Alector.

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.