temenus

Updated: May 18, 2025

This period had now expired; and the great-grandsons of Hyllus Temenus, Cresphontes, and Aristodemus resolved to make a fresh attempt to recover their birthright. They were assisted in the enterprise by the Dorians.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest

Argos fell to Temenus, Sparta to Eurysthenes and Procles, and Messenia to Cresphontes. Such are the main features of the legend of the Return of the Heraclidae. In order to make the story more striking and impressive, it compresses into a single epoch events which probably occupied several generations.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest

But though the Macedonians were not Greeks, their sovereigns claimed to be descended from an Hellenic race, namely, that of Temenus of Argos; and it is said that Alexander I. proved his Argive descent previously to contending at the Olympic games.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest