Eurypon, otherwise called Eurytion (Ευρυπων, Ευρυτιων), grandson of Procles, was the third king of that house at Sparta, and thenceforward gave it the name of Eurypontidae. In Greek mythology, Procles was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus. ... Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. ... Sparta (Greek: Σπάρτη) was a city in ancient Greece, whose territory included, in Classical times, all Laconia and Messenia, and which was the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. ...

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.) Plutarch Mestrius Plutarchus (ca. ... A demagogue (sometimes spelled demagog) is a leader who obtains power by appealing to the gut feelings of the public, usually by powerful use of rhetoric and propaganda. ... Polyaenus (died 278 BC), born in Macedonia, was a Greek rhetorician who served as military commander in the Roman army. ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... Mantinea is a city in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. ... Pausanias is the name of several ancient people: Pausanias was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC. Pausanias of Sparta was King of Sparta from 409 BC-395 BC. Pausanias was the servant/lover who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC Pausanias, Greek traveller and geographer of...

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867). The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is a encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. ... Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. ...