Eurotas · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

HelenClassical · Greek

River of Sparta, closely associated with Helen's homeland and invoked in her oath.

he is neither in Argos nor by the streams of the Eurotas.

For I call on you, I swear to you, Eurotas green with watery reeds, if this rumor of my husband’s death is true—and what was obscure in those words?

helen ¶

and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, have vanished, vanished, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping horses, and the schools of reed-fringed Eurotas, scene of youthful labors.

helen ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

The river of Sparta, invoked metonymically for the Spartan people in Andromache's rebuke of Menelaus.

Is this counted cleverness amongst you who dwell by the Eurotas?

andromache ¶

IsthmeanClassical · Greek

River of Sparta, near which Castor (and Polydeuces) are honored with cult.

in Thebes the horseman Iolaus has his honor, and Perseus in Argos, and the spearman Castor together with Polydeuces by the streams of Eurotas.

chapter 5 ¶

Often crowning their hair with wreaths from these contests they appeared beside the streams of Dirce or near the Eurotas, the son of Iphicles, who was of the same city as the race of the Sown Men, and the son of Tyndareus, dwelling among the Achaeans in his highland home of Therapne.

chapter 1 ¶

HellenicaClassical · Greek

The river guiding the Theban-led army's movement in Laconia.

Now when, in its onward march, the army of the enemy came opposite Amyclae, at this point they crossed the Eurotas.

chapter 6 ¶

but keeping the Eurotas on their right they passed along, burning and plundering houses full of many valuable things.

chapter 6 ¶