[1] Sparta was the daughter of King Eurotas of Laconia and Cleta.

[2] Pausanias also describes Tiasa as being Eurotas's daughter.

[1][3] By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo and Zephyrus.

[4][5] She was also an ancestor of King Tyndareus of Sparta and his brother Icarius and their children Clytemnestra, Castor and Penelope.

[6] According to traditions recorded by Pausanias, Sparta's father having no male heirs bequeathed his kingdom to Lacedaemon.