In Greek mythology, Lelex was a King of Laconia (then named Lelegia). He was married to the nymph Cleokhareia. He had at least two sons - Myles and Polycaon. 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. ... Laconia (Λακωνία), also known as Lacedaemonia, was in ancient Greece the portion of the Peloponnesus of which the most important city was Sparta. ... For other uses of nymph see Nymph (disambiguation). ...

He is the autochthonous ancestor of the Spartans. His grandson (fathered by Myles) was Eurotas. Eurotas had a daughter named Sparta, who would later marry Lacedaemon. Lacedaemon named the city of Sparta after his wife; however, the city's name would also be his own, as it was called either Lacedaemon or Sparta interchangeably. Sparta (Grk. ... Eurotas is the name of a river in the region of the Peloponnesus in Greece. ... Lacedaemon, or Lakedaimon, Grk. ...

Sources indicate that Perseus is a descendant of Lelex. Lelex's great granddaughter Sparta, gave birth to a daughter named Eurydice (no relation to Orpheus' Eurydice), who had married Acrisius, the king of Argos. Eurydice became the mother of Danae, thus making her Perseus' grandmother. Perseus with the Head of Medusa Perseus, Greek Περσεύς, was the son of Danae, the only child of Acrisius king of Argos. ... In Greek mythology, there were two characters named Eurydice, or Eurydíkê. The more famous was a woman - or a nymph - named Eurydice who was the wife of Orpheus. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... Acrisius was a mythical king of Argos, and a son of Abas and Ocalea. ... Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. ... In Greek mythology, Danae (Greek: Δανάη, parched) was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and mother of Perseus by Zeus. ...

Son of Poseidon

There was another Lelex. He was the son of Poseidon and Libya, and was a king of Attica. Andrea Doria as Neptune by Agnolo Bronzino: a potent allegory of Genoas hegemony in the Tyrrhenian Sea In Greek Mythology, Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was the god of the sea, known to the Romans as Neptune, and to the Etruscans as Nethuns. ... This article is about Attica in Greece. ...