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Before the Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy

Athenian democracy developed in the Ancient Greece city-state of Classical Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 500 BC....
, the tyrant
Tyrant

This article is about the political ruler. For other uses see Tyrant and Tyranny In modern usage, a tyrant is a single ruler holding absolute political power over a state or within an organization....
s, and the 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....
s, the city-state
City-state

A city-state is an independent country whose territory consists solely of a single major city and the area immediately surrounding it. Examples include the city-states of ancient Greece , the Phoenician cities of Canaan , the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia , the Mayans of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica , the central Asian cities along the Silk Roa...
 of Athens
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....
 was ruled by kings. Most of these are probably myth
Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
ical or only semi-historical. This list is based on that given by Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima c 314. He is often referred to as the Father of Church History because of his work in recording the history of the early Christianity church, especially Chronicon and Church_History_....
.

Erechthids or Cecropidae
Cecrops was considered the first true king of Athens, although he was a mythical half-man half-serpent.






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Before the Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy

Athenian democracy developed in the Ancient Greece city-state of Classical Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 500 BC....
, the tyrant
Tyrant

This article is about the political ruler. For other uses see Tyrant and Tyranny In modern usage, a tyrant is a single ruler holding absolute political power over a state or within an organization....
s, and the 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....
s, the city-state
City-state

A city-state is an independent country whose territory consists solely of a single major city and the area immediately surrounding it. Examples include the city-states of ancient Greece , the Phoenician cities of Canaan , the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia , the Mayans of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica , the central Asian cities along the Silk Roa...
 of Athens
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....
 was ruled by kings. Most of these are probably myth
Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
ical or only semi-historical. This list is based on that given by Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima c 314. He is often referred to as the Father of Church History because of his work in recording the history of the early Christianity church, especially Chronicon and Church_History_....
.

Earliest kings


These two kings were supposed to have ruled before the flood of the Deucalion
Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion....
 story.

  • Ogygus
  • Actaeus
    Actaeus

    Actaeus was the first king of Athens, according to Pausanias. He was the son of Erysichthon, father of Agraulus, and father-in-law to Cecrops I, the second king of Athens....


Erechthids or Cecropidae


Cecrops was considered the first true king of Athens, although he was a mythical half-man half-serpent. The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later.

  • Cecrops I
    Cecrops I

    Cecrops was a mythical king of Athens. The name means 'face with a tail': it is said that, born from the earth itself, he had his top half shaped like a man and the bottom half in serpent or fish-tail form....
     1556 - 1506 BC.
  • Cranaus
    Cranaus

    In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second Kings of Athens of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I.He was autochthonous , like his predecessor. During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred....
     1506 - 1497 BC.
  • Amphictyon
    Amphictyon

    Amphictyon , in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous . Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens....
     1497 - 1487 BC.
  • Erichthonius
    Erichthonius of Athens

    King Erichthonius was a mythological early ruler of ancient Athens, Greece. He was, according to some Greek mythology, autochthonous and raised by the goddess Athena....
     1487 - 1437 BC.
  • Pandion I
    Pandion I

    In Greek mythology, Pandion I was a legendary king of Athens, Greece, the son and heir to Erichthonius of Athens and his wife, the naiad Praxithea....
     1437 - 1397 BC.
  • Erechtheus
    Erechtheus

    Erechtheus in Greek mythology was the name of an archaic king of Athens, the re-founder of the polis and a double at Athens for Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus"....
     1397 - 1347 BC.
  • Cecrops II
    Cecrops II

    Cecrops II was the legendary or semi-legendary son of Pandion I and inherited the Athenian throne from his brother Erechtheus. He was succeeded by his son Pandion II ....
     1347 - 1307 BC.
  • Pandion II
    Pandion II

    In Greek mythology, Pandion II was son and heir of Cecrops II, King of Athens. and his wife Metiadusa. He was exiled from Athens, Greece by the sons of his uncle Metion who sought to put Metion on the throne....
     1307
    1300s BC

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     - 1282 BC.
  • Aegeus
    Aegeus

    In Greek mythology, Aegeus , also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas, was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens....
     1282
    1280s BC

    Events and trends*1290 BC ? Seti I becomes Pharaoh of Egypt.*c. 1285 BC ? Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris, illustration from a Book of the Dead is painted....
     - 1234 BC.
  • Theseus
    Theseus

    For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night....
     1234
    1230s BC

    Events and trends* Aegeus, legendary King of Athens, receives a false message that his designated heir Theseus, his son by Aethra of Troezena, is dead....
     - 1204 BC. (or 1213 BC).
  • Menestheus
    Menestheus

    Menestheus , the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the Dioscuri when Theseus travelled to the underworld, and at his return Menestheus exiled him from the city....
     1204
    1210s BC

    Events and trends*1213 BC ? Theseus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed and succeeded by Menestheus, great-grandson of Erechtheus II and second cousin of Theseus' father Aegeus....
     - 1181 BC (or 1213
    1210s BC

    Events and trends*1213 BC ? Theseus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed and succeeded by Menestheus, great-grandson of Erechtheus II and second cousin of Theseus' father Aegeus....
     - 1191 BC).
  • Demophon
    Demophon (King of Athens)

    Demophon was a king of Athens, according to Pindar, son of Theseus and a half brother of Acamas , fought in the Trojan War and was one of those to be in the Trojan Horse....
     1181
    1180s BC

    Events and trends* 1186 BC ? End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.* 1184 BC, April 24 ? Traditional date of the fall of Troy....
     - 1147 BC.
  • Oxyntes
    Oxyntes

    Oxyntes was a mythical King of Athens of Athens, son of Demophon and Phyllis. He had two sons, Apheidas and Thymoetes, who succeeded him, one another, in the throne....
     1147
    1140s BC

    Events and trends* 1149 BC ? The First Trojan War* 1147 BC ? Demophon, legendary King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son Oxyntes....
     - 1135 BC.
  • Apheidas
    Apheidas

    Apheidas was a mythical King of Athens of Athens, son of Oxyntes. After a short reign of one year, his brother Thymoetes succeeded him on the throne....
     1135
    1130s BC

    Events and trends* 1137 BC ? Ramses VII begins his reign as the sixth ruler of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.* 1135 BC ? Oxyntes, legendary Kings of Athens, dies after a reign of 12 years and is succeeded by his elder son Apheidas....
     - 1134 BC.
  • Thymoetes
    Thymoetes

    In Greek mythology, there were at least three different people named Thymoetes .*The first was one of the elders of Troy . A soothsayer had predicted, that on a certain day a boy should be born, by whom Troy should be destroyed....
     1134
    1130s BC

    Events and trends* 1137 BC ? Ramses VII begins his reign as the sixth ruler of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.* 1135 BC ? Oxyntes, legendary Kings of Athens, dies after a reign of 12 years and is succeeded by his elder son Apheidas....
     - 1126 BC.


Melanthids or Codridae


  • Melanthus
    Melanthus

    In Greek mythology, Melanthus was a king of Messenia. He was expelled by Heracleidae, and became later on a Kings of Athens, the successor of Thymoetes, succeeded by Codrus....
     1126
    1120s BC

    Events and trends* 1126 BC ? Thymoetes, legendary Kings of Athens , dies childless after a reign of 8 years. He is succeeded by his designated heir Melanthus of Pylos, a fifth-generation descendant of Neleus who had reportedly assisted him in battle against the Boeotians....
     - 1089 BC.
  • Codrus
    Codrus

    Codrus , King of Athens was, according to Ancient Greece legend, the last of the legendary King of Athens.During the time of the Dorians Invasion of Peloponnesus , the Dorians under Aletes, son of Hippotes had consulted the Delphic Oracle, who prophesied that their invasion would succeed as long as the king was not harmed....
     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.


After Codrus's death, his heirs ceased to be kings, and became hereditary archons. In 753 BC the hereditary archonship was replaced by a non-hereditary system (see Archons of Athens).

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