Eponymous archon

chief magistrate of an ancient Greek city-state

10 dated entries naming Eponymous archon, drawn from 10 separate years between 1012 BCE and 112 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Archon of Athens, Archons of Athens, Athenian tyranny in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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11th century BC

  • 1012 BCE1012 BC—Acastus, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 36 years and is succeeded by his son Archippus.source

10th century BC

  • 994 BCE994 BC—Archippus, Archon of Athens dies after a reign of 19 years and is succeeded by his son Thersippus.source
  • 922 BCE922 BC — Phorbas, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 30 years and is succeeded by his son Megacles.source

8th century BC

  • 797 BCE797 BC— Thespieus, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 27 years and is succeeded by his son Agamestor.source
  • 778 BCE778 BC—Agamestor, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.source

6th century BC

  • 508 BCEAthenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.source

5th century BC

  • 403 BCEUnder archon Eucleides, the Athenians accept a spelling reform, adopting the Ionian alphabet, which includes eta and omega. The new alphabet came to be known as the Euclidean alphabet.source

4th century BC

  • 382 BCEEvandrus takes over being Archon of Athens from Demonstrates.source

1st century BC

  • 26 BCEDioteimus Alaieus is one of the Archons of Athens.source

2nd century

  • 112Hadrian succeeds Gaius Julius Cassius Steirieus as archon of Athens.source

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