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[572] πρῶτα: Adrastos, originally a local god, had according to the legend been driven from Argos, and dwelt with his grandfather in Sikyon, where he gained the royal power, but afterwards he returned and reigned in Argos. The worship of Adrastos at Sikyon was vigorous in the time of Kleisthenes (Herod.v. 67), and is also found at Megara (Paus.i. 43. 1), but the legends all locate him at Argos. Sikyon (locally “Σεκυών”) seems to be a later name for the older “Μηκώνη” (Hes. Theog. 536).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.67
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 536
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