Timandra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Timandra was a Spartan princess and later queen of Arcadia.

Family

Timandra was one of the daughters of King Tyndareus and Leda, daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron, Aetolia. Thus, she was the sister of the twins Castor and Pollux, Helen, Clytemnestra, Phoebe and Philonoe.
Timandra married Echemus, the king of Arcadia and bore him a son Ladocus. By Phyleus, son of King Augeas of Elis, she was one of the possible mothers of Meges, an Achaean Leader during the Trojan War. Timandra might be the mother of Phyleus’ daughter Eurydameia who begot Euchenor and Cleitus by the seer Polyeidus.

Mythology

Like Clytemnestra, she was also unfaithful and deserted Echemus for Phyleus, the king of Dulichium.
This can be explained by the following account with Stesichorus and Hesiod as the authorities: