Alcmenes

 ( 8th-century Bc Monarchs ) 

Alcmenes () or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the 9th king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, from 740 to 700 BC.

According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Messenian War, but died before its 4th year. In his reign Helos was taken, a place near the mouth of the Eurotas, the last independent hold of the old population, and the supposed origin of the term "Helots".Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 2. § 7, iv. 4. § 3, 5. § 3Herodotus, vii. 204Plutarch, Apophth. Lac.

He succeeded his father Teleclus and was succeeded by his son Polydorus.