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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Legendary king of LYDIA, great‐grandson of ALCAEUS SON OF HERACLES. Herodotus names Agron the first Heraclid king of SARDIS (i.e., Lydia, 1.7.2–3), with CANDAULES being the last of this dynasty. Since Agron’s father and grandfather are Babylonian and Assyrian gods (BELUS and NINUS), some scholars believe that Herodotus reports a Greek (or Greek‐influenced) tradition meant to connect the ancient Near Eastern kings to HERACLES (Asheri in ALC, 79–80); but Burkert (1995, 144) argues that this GENEALOGY only makes sense in the context of Lydian‐Assyrian relations in the seventh century BCE.

SEE ALSO: Assyrians; Ethnography; Gyges son of Dascylus; Heracleidae