Agron (fl. c.1192 BC) was a legendary king of

Lydia Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis. At some point before 800 BC, ...

who is named by

Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...

as the first of the Lydian Heraclid dynasty. His father is named by Herodotus as

Ninus Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was the founder of Nineveh (also called Νίνου πόλις "city of Ninus" in Greek), ancient capital of Assyria. The figure or figures with which he correspon ...

, the mythical founder of

Nineveh Nineveh ( ; , ''URUNI.NU.A, Ninua''; , ''Nīnəwē''; , ''Nīnawā''; , ''Nīnwē''), was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul (itself built out of the Assyrian town of Mepsila) in northern ...

and a descendant of Šanta, an Assyrian sun god Before he assumed the throne, the ruling family had been the Maeonian line of

Lydus Lydus (Ancient Greek: Λυδός), a son of Atys and Callithea, grandson of Manes, and brother of Tyrrhenus or Torybus, is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus to have been an early king of Lydia, then prob ...

, from whom the country's name was derived. According to Herodotus, the Heraclid dynasty in Lydia reigned continuously through 22 generations for 505 years. The last of the line was

Candaules Candaules (died c.687 BC; , ''Kandaulēs''), also known as Myrsilos (Μυρσίλος), was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in the early years of the 7th century BC. According to Herodotus, he succeeded his father Meles as the 22nd and ...

, whose date of death was , so Herodotus' computation suggests for Agron's accession.

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* * {{cite book , last1=Bury , first1=J. B. , author1-link=J. B. Bury , last2=Meiggs , first2=Russell , author2-link=Russell Meiggs , title=A History of Greece , year=1975 , orig-year=first published 1900 , publisher=MacMillan Press , location=London , isbn=0-333-15492-4, edition=Fourth Kings of Lydia 12th-century BC monarchs Legendary monarchs

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