Αναζαγορας
The son of Megapenthes, who was himself the son of Proetus, king of Argos, whom he succeeded (Table 36). According to tradition recorded by both Pausanias and Diodorus it was during Anaxagoras' reign, and not that of his grandfather Proetus, that all the Argive women were struck with a madness which was cured by Melampus. As a reward Anazagoras gave Melampus a third of his kingdom, giving another third to Melampus' brother Bias, and keeping the remaining third for himself. His descendants, the Anaxagorides, ruled under this system until the son of Sthenelus, Cylarabes, reunited the whole kingdom of Argos under his own sway.
The last descendant of Melampus, Amphilochus, went into voluntary exile after his return from the Trojan War. Of the descendants of Bias the last, Cyanippus son of Aegialeus (or, according to other versions, his younger brother; see Table 1) died childless, as did Cylaeabes, and it was Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who gained control of Argos and at the same time of Sparta.
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Table of Sources:
- Paus. 2, 18, 4ff.
- Diod. Sic. 4, 68