Aristodemos (Heraklide)

Aristodemos (Greek Ἀριστόδημος Aristódēmos) is a great-great-great-grandfather of Hercules and one of the three Heracleids (the two others were Kresphontes and Temenos, his father was Aristomachos) , Messinia, Argolis, Corinth, and Megaris) among themselves. The oracle of Delphi questioned by Hyllos advised him to wait for "the third fruit" to conquer the Peloponnese, and then to enter the peninsula through "a hollow path across the sea." After the fourth unsuccessful attempt, Temenos, Kresphontes, and Aristodemus complained to the oracle that their instructions had proved to be incurable, and they were told that the "third fruit" was the "third generation," and that the " "Is not the Isthmus of Corinth, but the street of Rhion. Accordingly, they built a fleet in Naupaktos, which, however, were destroyed by Apollo by a lightning bolt, which also killed Aristodemus (or was killed by an arrow of Apollo), because one of the Heraclids had killed an Akarnan fortune-teller. After the take-over, the landscape Laconia was given to Prokles and Eurysthenes, the twin sons of Aristodemus. Their descendants ruled in Laconia (Sparta) until 221 BC. Chr. Edit source text

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