Lacedaemon 
Lacedaemon's father is Zeus and his mother is Taygete. His paternal grandparents are Chronos and Rhea; his maternal grandparents are Atlas and Pleione (the Oceanide). He has twenty-one half-brothers and nine half-sisters, named Herakles, Perseus, Dionysus, Epaphos, Arcas, Pelasgus, Argus, Asopus, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Minos, Aethlius, Orchomenus, Iasion, Hermes, Tantalus, Ammon, Aeacus, Myles, Eurotas, Eris, Athena, Polyhymnia, Clio, Harmonia, Harmonia, Aphrodite, Lethe and Orseis.General Notes
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TAYGETE, from whom Mount Taygetus in Laconia derived its name, was one of the Pleiades. By Zeus she became the mother of Lacedaemon, even though she fled from the god's embraces. Artemis tried to help by changing her into a cow, but Zeus found no problem with cows, bears, geese, swans, or other animals, and the question would really be one of whether he was willing to wait for Taygete to resume her original form or go right ahead with what was at hand. Whichever she chose, Lacedaemon was conceived. Still, Taygete felt obliged to Artemis and presented her with the famous Ceryneian hind with golden antlers that Heracles later captured as one of his labors. Lacedaemon became king of the region of his same name. He founded the sanctuary of the Charites between Sparta and Amyclae. Taygete was also called by some the mother of Eurotas by Myles. His mother was more oftern called Cleochareia.
[Apollodorus 3.10.1,3; Pausanias 3.1.2,18.7,20.2; Stephanus Byzantium, "Taygeton"; Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes 3.53; Hyginus, Fables 9,82; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.174.]
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