Archidameia
Archidameia was the name of several women of classical antiquity:
- Archidameia, a priestess of the Greek goddess Demeter, who, because of love of Aristomenes, set him at liberty when he had been taken prisoner.
- Archidameia, grandmother of the Spartan king Agis IV, was put to death, together with her grandson, in 241 BCE.
- Archidameia, a Spartan woman who distinguished herself by her heroic spirit when Sparta was nearly taken by Pyrrhus in 272 BCE, and who opposed the plan which had been entertained of sending the women to Crete. The biographer Plutarch calls her "Archidamia", but the later military writer Polyaenus calls her "Archidamis". The latter writer also calls her the daughter of king "Cleadas" or "Cleomenes".
