Thersander in the context of "Autesion"

In Greek legends, Procles (Greek: Προκλῆς, "the renowned") was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus and Argia. His twin was Eurysthenes. Together they received the land of Lacedaemon after Cresphontes, Temenus and Aristodemus defeated Tisamenus, the last Achaean king of the Peloponnesus. Procles married Anaxandra, daughter of Thersander, King of Kleonoe, sister of his sister-in-law Lathria, and was the father of Soos and the grandfather of Eurypon, founder of the Eurypontid dynasty of the Kings of Sparta.

The title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate," was explicitly denied to Eurysthenes and Procles by the later Spartan government on the grounds that they were not founders of a state, but were maintained in their offices by parties of foreigners. Instead the honor was granted to their son and grandson, for which reason the two lines were called the Agiads and the Eurypontids.

In Greek mythology, Proetus (/ˈpriːtəs/; Ancient Greek: Προῖτος Proitos) may refer to the following personages:

• Proetus, king of Argos and Tiryns, son of Abas and twin brother of Acrisius.
• Proetus, a prince of Corinth as the son of Prince Thersander, son of King Sisyphus. He was the father of Maera who died a maiden. Scholiasts on the Odyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus.
• Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, and father of Galanthis.
• Proetus of Nauplia, a son of Nauplius I and father of Lernus.
• Proetus, a son of Agenor (?). It is unclear whether Stephanus is referring to a son of Agenor named Proetus, or to the Argive Proetus as a descendant of Agenor.

Eurysthenes (Greek: Εὐρυσθένης, "widely ruling") was king of Sparta and one of the Heracleidae in Greek mythology. He was a son of Aristodemus and Argia, daughter of Autesion. He had a twin brother, 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 Kleonae, sister of his sister-in-law Anaxandra, and was the father of his successor, Agis I, founder of the Agiad dynasty of the Kings of Sparta.

The title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate," was explicitly denied to Eurysthenes and Procles by the later Spartan government on the grounds that they were not founders of a state, but were maintained in their offices by parties of foreigners. Instead the honor was granted to their son and grandson, for which reason the two lines were called the Agiads and the Eurypontids.

In Greek mythology, the name Ctesippus (/tɪˈsɪp.əs/; Ancient Greek: Κτήσιππος means 'possessing horses') may refer to:

• Ctessipus, son of Heracles by Deianira. He was the father of Thrasyanor, grandfather of Antimachus and great-grandfather of Deiphontes. Thersander, son of Agamedidas, is also given as his great-grandson.
• Ctesippus, another son of Heracles by Astydameia the daughter of Amyntor or Ormenius.
• Ctessipus, two of the suitors of Penelope, one from Same, and the other from Ithaca. The rich and "lawless" Ctesippus of Same, son of Polytherses, who has 'fabulous wealth' appears in the Odyssey; he mocks the disguised Odysseus and hurls a bull's hoof at him as a 'gift', mocking xenia, though Odysseus dodges this. Telemachus says if he had hit the guest, he would have run Ctesippus through with his spear. Later, in the battle between Odysseus and the suitors, Ctesippus attempts to kill Eumaeus with a spear, but misses due to Athena's intervention, though scratches Eumaeus's shoulder, and is thereupon himself killed by Philoetius, who thus avenges the disrespect towards his master.

Argia /ɑːrˈdʒaɪə/, Argea /ɑːrˈdʒiːə/, or Argeia (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία, romanized: Argeía) may refer to several figures in Greek mythology:

• Argia, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. She was the mother of Phoroneus, by her brother Inachus, a river-god of Argos. Argeia may also have been the mother (by Inachus) of Io.
• Argia, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus. The later was the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts. Others credited Danaus or Arestor to be this Argus' father.
• Argia, an Argive princess as the daughter of King Adrastus and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She married Polynices, son of Oedipus and bore him three sons: Thersander, Adrastus and Timeas.
• Argia, a Theban princess as the daughter of King Autesion. She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.
• Argeia, was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship.

In Greek mythology, Ornytion (Ancient Greek: Ὀρνύτιων means 'moon-bird') or Ornytus (Ὄρνυτος) may refer to two different characters:

• Ornytion, also known as Porphyrion, a Corinthian prince who later succeeded his father, King Sisyphus, as the ruler of the Ephyraean land. His mother was the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. Ornytion was the brother of Glaucus, Thersandrus and Almus, and the father of Phocus and Thoas. A scholiast on Euripides related of him that he came from Aonia to join the people of Hyampolis in the battle against the Opuntian Locrians over Daphnus and won himself the kingdom, which he handed over to Phocus and returned to Corinth with his other son, Thoas, who later succeeded him.
• Ornytion, son of Phocus and thus grandson of the former above Ornytion. He was the father of Naubolus.