Codros

In the Greek Mythology, Codros or Codrus (in Greek old Κόδρος / Kódros ), wire of Mélanthos, is the seventeenth and last legendary king of Athens. It had many sons, who undertook to colonize the area Ionie nne: Nélée (Millet), Androclos (Éphèse), Prométhos and Damasichthon (Colophon), Cyarétos (Myonte),…

Having learned from a oracle that in the war made by the Doriens with the Athenians, the advantage would remain with that of the two people whose chief would be killed, he voluntarily devoted himself for his, while throwing himself in the middle of the fray. His/her son Médon succeeded to him as “a perpetual Archonte” (in practice, monarchy continued thereafter).

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(I, 147; IX, 96).
(I, 19,5; I, 39,4; VII, 2,1; VII, 2,8; VII, 2,10; VII, 3,3; VI, 3,5-7).
(IX, 1,7; XIV, 1,3).

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