Alcmenes

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Infobox royalty Alcmenes (Template:Langx) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the 9th king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, from c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 740 to c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 700 BC.[1]

According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Messenian War, but died before its 4th year. In his reign Helos was taken, a place near the mouth of the Eurotas, the last independent hold of the old Achaean population, and the supposed origin of the term "helot".[2][3][4]

He succeeded his father Teleclus and was succeeded by his son Polydorus.

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  2. Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3
  3. Herodotus, vii. 204
  4. Plutarch, Apophth. Lac.

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