Lacedaemon, mythical king of Lacedaemon (Sparta). Son of Zeus and the Pleaid Taygete, father of Amyclas and Eurydice with his wife Princess Sparta. Head wearing a helmet from an ancient Greek coin. Lacedemone. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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