Pheidon I (Greek: Φείδων'A) was a king of Argos in the 8th century BC, and seems to have been a son of Temenus, a great-great-grandson of Heracles. He is often confused with another king of Argos also named Pheidon, who was probably one of his descendants.
PheidonI (Greek: Φείδων'A) was a king of Argos in the 8th century BC, and seems to have been a son of Temenus, a great-great-grandson of Heracles. He...
Pheidon (Greek: Φείδων) was an Argive ruler during the 7th century BCE and 10th in line to Temenus. He was arguably Argos's most ambitious and successful...
Aristomachos. Ancestor of the royal Macedonian dynasty, the Temenids. PheidonI. Son of Temenus. Deiphontes. Son-in-law of Temenos. Cisos or Ceisos. Temenos...
Argives won the battle and so repulsed the invasion. Argos, then ruled by Pheidon II, thus confirmed its continuing dominance in the Peloponnese, unbroken...
of Temenus, the princes argued about who should be king. One of them, Pheidon, defeated his brothers in battle and took over the kingship. Caranus then...
tyrant Pheidon. At Macedonia, the Heraclids formed the Argead Dynasty, whose name comes from Argos, as one of the Heraclids from this city, Perdiccas I, settled...
associated with the invention (although the Parian Chronicle mentions Pheidon of Argos as a contender). In 546 BC, Croesus was captured by the Persians...
speaks about those who invented the process of coining money mentioning Pheidon and Demodike from Cyme, wife of the Phrygian king, Midas, and daughter...
priests of Heraion that Pheidon, king of Argos, dedicated rod-shaped obeloi to Heraion. Similar information about Pheidon's obeloi was also recorded...
in classical Greece, but archon (ruler) or tyrannos (tyrant); although Pheidon of Argos is described by Aristotle as a basileus who made himself into...
Committees of The House of Representatives. Used around the Euboea Used by Pheidon, king of Argos Used around the Aegina by which the exclusive rights which...
270 BC (hands city over to Kingdom of Pontus) Laphaes, 6th century BC Pheidon, around 550 BC Perilaus, c. 546 BC Archinus, c. 395 BC Aristippus the Elder...
Hammond estimated that the dynasty began around 650 BC. Amyntas I and his son Alexander I are the earliest kings for which we have any reliable historical...
the first law code of this city. In another notable city-state, Corinth, Pheidon composed the first set of tne city laws. Though the author of the law code...
founded by Ionians 691 Antandrus is founded and annexed by Mytilene 690 Pheidon becomes tyrant of Argos. 689 Gela is founded by Cretans and Rodians 688...
Mediterranean known to have officially set standards of weight and money was Pheidon. Minting occurred in the late 7th century BC amongst the Greek cities of...
the base for his own imperial ambitions. To legitimize his rule as Ptolemy I Soter (r. 323–282 BC), he relied, like the other Diadochi, not only on the...
prestige and political advantage. Pausanias later writes that in 668 BC, Pheidon of Argos was commissioned by the town of Pisa to capture the sanctuary...
pride is the dispute about coinage, whether the first one to strike it was Pheidon of Argos, or Demodike of Kyme (who was wife of Midas the Phrygian and daughter...
pre-Dorian times. It is usually stated on the authority of Ephorus, that Pheidon of Argos established a mint in Aegina, the first city-state to issue coins...
note 1.: Bradeen links the extension of the war to the rise of Pheidon at Argos. Thucydides I. 15. Hall, History of the Archaic Greek World, pp. 1–8, writes...
could have been formed as a defensive pact against the expansive tyrant Pheidon of Argos. Some Mycenaean objects found at the site related to a few ancient...
speaks about those who invented the process of coining money mentioning Pheidon and Demodike from Cyme, wife of the Phrygian king, Midas, and daughter...
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