Editing Inachus (section)

=== Reign ===
The historian [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] describes him as the eldest king of Argos who named the river after himself and sacrificed to [[Hera]].<ref name=":3">Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D15%3Asection%3D4 2.15.4]; In the [[Lactantius]], ''[[The Divine Institutes|Divine Institutes]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=543#1.11 1.11], it refers to Hera as [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]].</ref> He also notes that some said he was not a mortal, but a river. Inachus was also said to be first priest at Argos, the country was frequently called the land of Inachus.<ref name=":4">[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html 1.25.4.]; Euripides, ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=48 932] Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#143 143]</ref> [[Jerome]] and [[Eusebius]] (both citing [[Castor of Rhodes]]), and as even late as 1812, [[John Lemprière]]<ref name="[[John Lemprière|Lemprière]]">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiIIAAAAQAAJ&q=Lyrcus&pg=PT456|title=A classical dictionary|last=Lemprière|author-link=John Lemprière|first=John|year=1812|location=Original from Oxford University}}</ref> [[euhemerism|euhemeristically]] asserted that he was the first king of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] reigning for 50 years<ref>[[Jerome|St. Jerome]], ''[[Chronicon (Jerome)|Chronicon]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=530#B1852 B1852]</ref> (B.C. 1807<ref>[[Harry Thurston Peck]]. ''[[Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities|Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities]]'' ''(1898) s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DI%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dinachus-harpers Inachus]''</ref>). Inachus divided the territories between his sons, Phegeus and Phoroneus who succeeded him as the second king of Argos. Inachus contemporary was [[Leucippus (son of Thurimachus)|Leucippus]], the eight king of [[Sicyon]].<ref name=":0" />

The ancients themselves made several attempts to explain the stories about Inachus: sometimes they looked upon him as a native of Argos, who after the [[Flood myth|deluge]] of [[Deucalion]] led the Argives from the mountains into the plains, and confined the waters within their proper channels. After rendering the province of [[Argolis]] inhabitable again, he then founded the city of Argos. Other times, the ancients regarded Inachus as an immigrant who had come across the sea as the leader of an Egyptian or Libyan colony, and had united the Pelasgians, whom he found scattered on the banks of the Inachus.<ref>Scholia ad Euripedes, ''Orestes'' 920 & 932'';'' Sophocles ap Dionysiacus I.c</ref> They who make Inachus to have come into Greece from beyond the sea regard his name as a Greek form for the Oriental term Enak, denoting “great” or “powerful,” and this last as the base of the Greek ἄναξ, “a king.”

In Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]'', Inachus is represented on [[Turnus]]'s shield. Compare the Inachos or [[Brimo]]s of the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]].

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{| class="wikitable" 
! colspan="12" |INACHUS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES{{cn|date=January 2025}}
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!Kings of Argos
! colspan="2"  |''Regnal Years''
!Castor
! colspan="2"  |''Regnal Years''
!Syncellus
!''Regnal Years''
!Apollodorus
!Hyginus
!Tatian
!Pausanias
|- 
|'''Inachus'''
|''1677''
|''50 winters & summers''
|Inachus
|''1677.5''
|''56 winters & summers''
|Inachus
|''1675''
|Inachus
| -do-
| -do-
| -do-
|-
|''Successor''
|''1652''
|''60 winters & summers''
|Phoroneus
|''1649.5''
|''60 winters & summers''
|Phoroneus
|''1650''
|Phoroneus
| -do-
| -do-
| -do-
|}