Lygdamis

First appears: Book 1 · §60–66

Life events

• Peisistratos returned with forces and took possession of Marathon.(Book 1 · §60–66 · 📍 Marathon)
  • With: Peisistratos
  • “in Attica the first place of which they took possession was Marathon.”
• Peisistratos conquered Naxos and entrusted it to Lygdamis.(Book 1 · §60–66 · 📍 Naxos)
  • With: Peisistratos
  • “for this also Peisistratos conquered by war and delivered into the charge of Lygdamis.”

Book 1 · §60–66

• with Peisistratos (Lygdamis supported Peisistratos and his sons’ return.) “and a man of Naxos had come to them of his own motion, whose name was Lygdamis, and showed very great zeal in providing both money and men.”

Book 7 · §86–99

• child: Artemisia “Now her name, as I said, was Artemisia and she was the daughter of Lygdamis, and by descent she was of Halicarnassos on the side of her father, but of Crete by her mother.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.