Eurotas was the son of King Myles of Laconia and grandson of Lelex, eponymous ancestor of the Leleges.

[2] The Bibliotheca gave a slight variant of the mythological generation of Eurotas, who was described as the son of Lelex, born from the ground, by his wife Cleocharia.

[4] Eurotas had no male heir but he did have two daughters Sparta and Tiasa[5] by Clete[citation needed].

Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus and Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus was named, according to Pausanias.

[7] River gods are typically represented in Greek art, such as coin motifs, as figures with the bodies of bulls and the faces of humans.