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Codrus

Codrus (Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
: ), King of Athens

King of Athens

Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by monarch. Most of these are probably mythologyical or only semi-historical....
(r. ca 1089

1080s BC

Events and trends* 1089 BC ? Melanthus, legendary Kings of Athens, dies after a reign of 37 years and is succeeded by his son Codrus....
-1068 BC) was, according to Greek

Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
legend, the last of the legendary Kings of Athens

King of Athens

Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by monarch. Most of these are probably mythologyical or only semi-historical....
.

During the time of the Dorian Invasion of Peloponnesus (c. 1068 BC), the Dorians under Aletes

Aletes, son of Hippotes

Aletes was a son of Hippotes and a fifth-generation descendant of Heracles. He is said to have taken possession of Corinth, and to have expelled the Sisyphids thirty years after the first invasion of the Peloponnesus by the Heracleidae....
had consulted the Delphic Oracle, who prophesied that their invasion would succeed as long as the king was not harmed. The news of this prophecy, that only the death of an Athenian

Athens

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Codrus (Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
: ), King of Athens

King of Athens

Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by monarch. Most of these are probably mythologyical or only semi-historical....
(r. ca 1089

1080s BC

Events and trends* 1089 BC ? Melanthus, legendary Kings of Athens, dies after a reign of 37 years and is succeeded by his son Codrus....
-1068 BC) was, according to Greek

Ancient Greece

King of Athens

Aletes, son of Hippotes

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, quickly found its way to the ears of Codrus. In devotion to his people, Codrus disguised himself as a peasant and made it to the vicinity of the Dorian encampment across the river, where he provoked a group of Dorian soldiers. He was put to death in the quarrel, and the Dorians, realizing Codrus had been slain, decided to retreat in fear of their prophesied defeat.

In the aftermath of these events, no one thought himself worthy to succeed Codrus, the title of king was abolished, and that of archon

Archon

Archon is a Greek language word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem ???-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as monarch, hierarchy and anarchism....
substituted for it. The first such archon was Codrus' son, Medon

Medôn

In Greek mythology, there were three people called Medon .#An Ithacan herald who was polite towards Penelope when all of her suitors were rude....
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