Temenus

Family: Argives · Role: father of Phalces · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6

In Book 2, Chapter 6, Phalces is identified as the son of Temenus; he seized Sicyon by night with the Dorians and shared its royal power with Lacestades. In Chapter 11, Phalces built Hera’s temple after saying that the goddess had guided him on the way to Sicyon. In Chapter 18, Temenus returned to the Peloponnese with his brother Cresphontes, both sons of Aristomachus, and claimed Argos and its kingdom against Tisamenus.

In Chapter 19, Temenus appointed Deiphontes general instead of his sons and made him his associate in all things, then gave him his daughter Hyrnetho in marriage, whom he loved more than all his children. Temenus was killed by his sons, and Cisus, the eldest, became king. At Temenus’s death, Deiphontes and Hyrnetho opposed his sons while the army favored them; later, Cerynes and Phalces went to Epidaurus intending to get Hyrnetho from Deiphontes, while Argæeus did not approve of their plot. In Chapter 38, Temenus occupied and fortified Temenium during the conflict with Tisamenus and the Achæans. In Book 4, Chapter 3, Isthmius is named as Temenus’s son.