In Greek mythology, Eurotas was a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparta, of which the Spartan city was named after. Eurotas has been said to have carried the waters, stagnating in the plain of the city of Sparta, into the sea by means of a canal, later in which he called the river that arose therefrom after his own name. Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... In Greek mythology, Myles was a son of Lelex, king of Laconia. ... In Greek mythology, Lelex was a King of Laconia (then named Lelegia). ... Sparta (Grk. ... Sparta (Grk. ...
HYACINTHUS,' in Greek mythology,' the youngest son of the Spartan king Amyclas, who reigned at Amyclae (so Pausanias 3, iii.
Other stories make him son of Oebalus, of Eurotas, or of Pierus and the nymph Clio (see Hyginus, Fabulae, 271; Lucian, De saltatione, 45, and Dial.
According to the general story, which is probably late and composite, his great beauty attracted the love of Apollo, who killed him accidentally when teaching him to throw the discus (quoit); others say that Zephyrus (or Boreas) out of jealousy deflected the quoit so that it hit Hyacinthus on the head and killed him.
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