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Temenus
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In Greek mythology, Temenus (, Tḗmenos) was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Aristodemus.

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  • Conquest of the Peloponnese
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In Greek mythology, Temenus (, Tḗmenos) was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Aristodemus.

Temenus was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnese. He became King of Argos. He was the father of Ceisus, Káranos, Phalces (who was said to be founder of Sicyon), Agraeus, and Hyrnetho. Káranos was the first king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia and founder of the royal Macedonian dynasty–the Temenid or Argead dynasty–which culminated in the sons of Alexander the Great five centuries later.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Temenus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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