The LYDIAN KING-LIST
The KINGS OF LYDIA
Herakles
.
Alkaios
.
Belos
.
Ninos
.
Agron, first Heraklid king of Sardis
.
[ 19 generations ]
[ 22 generations from Agron to Candaules,
inclusive: 505 years
(Herodotus I. 6.4) ]
Myrsos
.
Candaules
.
Gyges, the first Mermnad king
38 years (Herodotus I. 14.4)
Ardys
49 years (Herodotus I. 16.1)
Sadyattes
12 years (Herodotus I. 16.1)
Alyattes
57 years (Herodotus I. 25.1)
CROESUS
14 years (560-546 B.C.) (Herodotus I. 86.1)
The KINGS of the MEDES and the PERSIANS
Deioces
53 years (Herodotus I. 102.1)
Phraortes
22 years (Herodotus I. 102.2)
Cyaxares
40 years (Herodotus I. 106.3)
Astyages
35 years (Herodotus I. 130.1)
CYRUS, the first King of the Medes and the Persians
29 years (559–530 B.C.) (Herodotus I. 214.3)
Cambyses
8 years (530–522 B.C.) (Herodotus III. 66.2 and 67.2)
[including the brief reign of Smerdes]
Smerdes
(Herodotus III. 67.2)
Darius I
36 years (521–486 B.C.) (Herodotus VII. 4)
Xerxes
(486–464) (Herodotus VII. 7 and VII. 20.1)
Artaxerxes I
40 years (464–424 B.C.)
Darius II
(424–405 B.C.)
Artaxerxes II Memnon
(404–358 B.C.)
Artaxerxes III Ochus
(358–338)
Arses
(338–-336)
Darius III
(336–330 B.C.)
© 09/21/2001
December 8, 2006 7:52 AM
John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu
