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	Deioces - LoveToKnow 1911
		Then Deioces, son of Phraortes, an illustrious man of upright character, was chosen judge in his village, and the justness of his decisions induced the inhabitants of the other villages to throng to him.
		He now caused them to build a great capital, Ecbatana, with a royal palace, and introduced the ceremonial of oriental courts; he surrounded himself with a guard and no longer showed' himself to the people, but gave his judgments in writing and controlled the people by officials and spies.
		So it seems that the dynasty, which more than half a century later succeeded in throwing off the Assyrian yoke and founded the Median empire, was derived from this Dayukku, and that his name was thus introduced into the Median traditions, which contrary to history considered him as founder of the kingdom.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Deioces (734 words)

	Media
		If we are to believe Herodotus, Media was unified by a man named Deioces, the first of four kings who were to rule a true empire that included large parts of Iran and eastern Anatolia.
		Their names sound convincingly Median: a Daiaukku and a Uksatar (Deioces and Cyaxares) are mentioned in texts from the eighth century.
		One clue is a little list that Herodotus inserted in his Histories, in which he states that Deioces "united the Medes and was ruler of the tribes which here follow, namely, the Busae, Paretacenians, Struchates, Arizantians, Budians, and Magians" (1.102).
	www.livius.org /mea-mem/media/media.html (1605 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 953 (v. 1)
		Soon after this, Deioces, the son of Phraortes, a wise man among the Medes, desiring the tyranny, became an arbitrator for his own village; and the fame of his justice attracted to him suitors from all quarters, till at last the Modes chose him for their king.
		After a reign of thirty-five years, during which he ruled the six tribes of the Medes without attempting any foreign conquest, Dei'oces died, and was succeeded by his son, Phraortes.
		Herodotus mentions an interregnum, and it seems from his language to have been not a short one, between the revolt of the Medes and the accession of Dei'oces; and lie is supposed to give the sum total of the Median rule as 156 years.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0959.html (843 words)

	History of Iran: Ecbatana
		Deioces bade them build for him a palace worthy of the royal dignity and strengthen him with a guard of spearmen.
		These walls then Deioces built for himself and round his own palace, and the people he commanded to dwell round about the wall.
		This is clearly a fantastic description, but it may contain an element of truth: the seven walls may in fact be a ziggurat, a kind of multi-storied temple tower that was common in the ancient Near East.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/ecbatana/ecbatana.php (648 words)

	DEIOCES
		Deioces, whose son was held hostage by the Urartians, supported the Urartian king Rusa@ I (730-14 B.C.E.) against the Mannean ruler Ullusunu, ultimately without success, for Sargon intervened and eventually captured Deioces and exiled him and his family to Hamath (modern H®ama@t) in Syria.
		Deioces may already have taken part in a rebellion against the Mannean king Iranzu the year before; one of the governors listed in the Assyrian annals for that year, the governor of Messi, is not named and may have been Deioces, but the identification cannot be made with certainty.
		The so-called House of Deioces (Bît-Da-a-a-uk-ku, i.e., "place or province of Deioces"), on which scholars used to base their historical reconstructions, never existed, however; the notion arose from a misreading of [KUR bît]-Da-a-a-uk-ki for [KUR Ma]-da-a-a "the land of the Medes" in Sargon's annals for the year 713 (Luckenbill, p.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v7f3/v7f303.html (977 words)

	ANE History: Persia
		At Ecbatana "a meeting place of many ways", which is located in a picturesque valley made fertile by the melting snows of the highlands, Deioces (also their first recorded king) founded their first capital.
		Deioces issued a decree, that "no man should be admitted to the King's presence, but everyone should consult him by means of messengers; moreover, that it should be accounted indecency for any one to laugh or spit before him.
		Under the leadership of Deioces, the Medes became a threat to the power of Assyria, so the Assyrians repeatedly invaded him.
	www.theology.edu /lec24.htm (2122 words)

	Sargon is Sennacherib
		We need to pause here for a moment on the subject of the Medes, because a study of their famous king Deioces, in relation to the neo-Assyrian kings who were contemporaries of Hezekiah, would tend to support my argument that this period stands in need of a time reduction.
		On the other hand, Herodotus makes Deioces an approximate contemporary of Gyges, who made a treaty with Ashurbanipal, thought to be Sargon's great-grandson.
		Herodotus wrote that Alyattes, the son of Sadyattes, the son of Ardys, the son of Gyges, made war with Cyaxares, the son of Phraortes, the son of Deioces [30].
	www.specialtyinterests.net /sargon.html (13017 words)

	Iransaga - The Medes
		The Persians eventually settled in the province of Fars and in the Bakhtiari Mountains, while the Medes occupied the Hamedan plain.
		The Medes, were fierce warriors and skilled horse breeders, and at first were organised as independent tribes; however, this changed under the tribal chief, Deioces.
		The Median capital was established at Ecbatana or "Place of Assembly", modern Hamedan.
	www.art-arena.com /medes.html (172 words)

	Newman Reader - Discussions & Arguments - Who's to Blame - 2
		As he proceeded thus, the dwellers in other towns, who had suffered from unjust decisions, were glad to go to him and to plead their causes, till at length they went to no one else.
		Deioces now had the matter in his own hands.
		Accordingly he would no longer proceed to the judgment-seat; for it was not worth his while, he said, to neglect his private affairs for the sake of the affairs of others.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/arguments/blame/letter2.html (1162 words)

	Hamadân (Ecbâtanâ) Historical Geography - (CAIS) ©
		The most plausible interpretation is that Deioces declared a pre-existing town to be the new capital of a people he unified and which he then ordered to be renovated according to his schemes.
		The site that Deioces made his capital and the present location of Hamadân was probably the "fortress of the Babylonians," known to have existed during the later expedition of Tiglathpileser III into the region at the end of the 8th century B.C.E. (D'yakonov, pp.
		It makes sense that Deioces, given the pressure he faced from the Assyrians, would have chosen as the capital of the tribes he had just unified an easily defendable spot at the meeting point of the main routes across the Zagros Mountains.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Geography/hamadan_historical_geography.htm (2245 words)

	KEO - POLITICS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus, Deioces was the first king of the Medes.
		Herodotus claimed that the Median tribes at first lived in villages without any political organization; when they decided to elect a king, they chose Deioces, a village judge renowned for the justice of his decisions.
		Deioces united all the Median tribes, built Ecbatana (modern Hamadan, Iran) as their capital, and ruled for 53 years (728-675 BC).
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/politics/personalites/leaders/Deioces.html (128 words)

	Deioces (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deioces was the first king of the Medes, an Aryan people in what would become Iran.
		He united seven Median tribes and became their judge and leader, beginning in 701 BC.
		Deioces built a palace in the capital, Ecbatana, now known as Hamadan.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/de/deioces.html (82 words)

	Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens - Cambridge University Press
		When the palace was complete, Deioces remained inside to keep himself safe from plots and communicated with his people through messengers.
		Deioces’ constitutional position is symbolized by his physical distance from the people: he rules from his palace, hidden behind seven high walls.
		Deioces does not view the achievement of law and order as an end in itself, but as a means to gain power.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052185279X&ss=exc (2453 words)

	[No title]
		When Deioces, who has been contracting himself out as a private mediator for some time, is chosen by the recently liberated Medes to be the new head of a monarchy, his first act of sovereignty is to build a palace on the top of a hill and enclose it in seven concentric walls.
		Deioces’ method of judgement, like Zeus’ nod, both preserves and signifies his own silence.
		Deioces writes: and writing, we know from Plato, “wanders everywhere, getting into the hands not only of those with understanding, but also of those who have no business with it.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /eppp-archive/100/201/300/literary_research-ef/n28-n36/old33/ArticlesGurd.htm (5811 words)

	Yazdgerd III - Dedicated to the Researchers of Iran
		Deioces, the founder of the Median kingdom, believed the Kassites to be of the same lineage of the Elamites.
		Herodotus writes Deioces to be the son of Fravartish, chieftain of the Medians.
		According to one Assyrian account, Deioces is recalled as leader of the Mannaeans as well, and further explains this action by Deioces as a political move to gain strength and independence from the Assyrian exploiters.
	www.freewebs.com /yazdgerdiii/mediankingdom.htm (6305 words)

	The protohistoric period and the kingdom of the Medes
		Deioces, who, according to Herodotus, reigned from 728 to 675 BC and founded the Median capital Ecbatana (modern Hamadan).
		Attempts have been made to associate Daiaukku, a local Zagros king mentioned in a cuneiform text as one of the captives deported to Assyria by Sargon II in 714 BC, with the Deioces of Herodotus, but such an association is highly unlikely.
		To judge from the Assyrian sources, no Median kingdom such as Herodotus describes for the reign of Deioces existed in the early 7th century BC; at best, he is reporting a Median legend of the founding of their kingdom.
	www.azargoshnasp.net /history/Medes/MEDESBRITANNICA.htm (1688 words)

	Deioces (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deioces (reigned 701-665 BC) was the first king of Medians, an Aryan nation in Iran.
		He united seven Median tribes and became their judge and leader.
		Deioces build a royal palace in the capital, Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) and reigned for about 50 years.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/de/deioces.html (90 words)

	History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		Bent on obtaining the sovereign power, he showed himself an honest and an upright judge, and by these means gained such credit with his fellow-citizens as to attract the attention of those who lived in the surrounding villages.
		They had long been suffering from unjust and oppressive judgments; so that, when they heard of the singular uprightness of Deioces, and of the equity of his decisions, they joyfully had recourse to him in the various quarrels and suits that arose, until at last they came to put confidence in no one else.
		When this debate began the claims of Deioces and his praises were at once in every mouth; so that presently all agreed that he should be king.
	www.4literature.net /Herodotus/History_of_Herodotus/15.html (1061 words)

	DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s) - Online Information article about DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)
		DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s) - Online Information article about DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)
		Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
		house of Deioces," also in 713, when Sargon invaded these regions again.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DEIOCES_O7716rc17s_.html (649 words)

	Medes and Persians
		In this capacity as umpire, Deioces, a peculiarly grave and moderate villager, became noted and honored through all the country, until finally many of the Medes urged him to act as their permanent leader or king.
		At first Deioces refused; then he asked if they would give him a guard of soldiers to enforce his judgments.
		He told the Medes of the weakness of other nations and bade them set out to seize by force that leadership of the world which was theirs by reason of their strength and courage.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/ancientp_baa.html (305 words)

	Media (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The inhabitants came to be known as Medes.
		715) with the creation of the Median kingdom and the founding of its capital city at Ecbatana (modern Hamadan), it was probably not before 625 BC that Cyxares grandson of Deioces, succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Iranian-speaking Median tribes.
		In 614 he captured Ashur, and in 612, in alliance with Nabopolassar of Babylon, his forces stormed Nineveh, putting an end to the Assyrian empire.
	www.knn.u-net.com /media.htm (370 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 99
		The number of complaints brought before him continually increasing, as people learned more and more the fairness of his judgments, Deioces, feeling himself now all important, announced that he did not intend any longer to hear causes.
		Wherefore the Medes assembled from all quarters, and held a consultation on the state of affairs.
		The speakers, as I think, were chiefly friends of Deioces.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_99.htm (220 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 98
		As the Medes at that time dwelt in scattered villages without any central authority, and lawlessness in consequence prevailed throughout the land, Deioces, who was already a man of mark in his own village, applied himself with greater zeal and earnestness than ever before to the practice of justice among his fellows.
		It was his conviction that justice and injustice are engaged in perpetual war with one another.
		So that, when they heard of the singular uprightness of Deioces, and of the equity of his decisions, they joyfully had recourse to him in the various quarrels and suits that arose, until at last they came to put confidence in no one else.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_98.htm (286 words)

	sg_5
		Deioces was the legendary founder of the Median Empire.
		Compare Deioces with the elders depicted on the Shield of Achilles and with Hesiod's "bribe-devouring basileis".
		Is it significant that the founder of an eastern empire acquired power in part because of his reputation for giving "straight judgements"?
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~perlman/history/sg_5.html (603 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With reference to the account of the rise of Deioces to the throne of a henceforth united Median state (Hdt.
		The particular vocabulary used to describe Deioces' political ambitions has also supplied grounds for postulating an additional indebtedness of this purportedly Median context to native Greek political realities.
		It seeks to elucidate, in turn, the significance of this section of the Median logos in setting the particular ideological bearings of key elements of the language and thought of Herodotus' subsequent accounts of the rise of Cyrus (Hdt.
	www.flwi.ugent.be /IronAgeInIran/abstracts/abstract41.htm (227 words)

	Herodotus' Inquiries, Book 1: installment 5
		At once, from when they were putting forward whom they should set themselves as king, Deioces was prevalent, since by every man he was both put forward and praised, until they consented that he should be king.
		Those walls, then, Deioces had erected for himself round his palace, and the rest of the people he bade to be settled round the wall.
		Then there was born Deioces’ son, Phraortes, who, when Deioces had met with his end, after he had reigned fifty-three years, inherited the rule.
	www.losttrails.com /pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus_5.html (3566 words)

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