Later, Hermione married Orestes, son of Agamemnon. Clytemnestra had Agamemnon murdered after his return from Troy and Orestes avenged his father’s death by having his mother murdered eight years later. Hermione’s son Tisamenus ruled Sparta until the Heraclidae invaded the Peloponnesus. The Heraclidae were the grandsons of Herakles. They claimed the Peloponesus because of descent from Alcmena, the mother of Herakles and daughter of a Mycenaean king. As a result of their victory they divided up the Peloponesus. Then the twin sons of Aristodemus, Eurysthenes and Procles jointly ruled and set up the lines of the historical kings of Sparta.
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