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  Phoroneus, Greek Mythology Link.
Having become a ruler, Phoroneus gathered together inhabitants that until then were scattered living as isolated families, and founded a city which was first called City of Phoroneus, and later Argos after Argus 5, the grandson of Phoroneus.
In Argos, Phoroneus was still remembered in historical times, and the Argives brought offerings to his grave as to a hero, keeping also a statue of him, next to which there was an ever burning fire, for according to the Argives, it was Phoroneus who discovered fire, and not Prometheus 1 as others think.
At the death of Phoroneus, he was succeeded on the throne by his grandson Argus 5, son of Zeus and Niobe 1, the first mortal woman to consort with the god.
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 Royal Houses of Argolis
Poseidon and Hera sought to be the patron deity of Argos or Argolis.
Phoroneus had married a nymph, who was named Teledice or Cinna, and became the father of Apia and Niobe.
Phoroneus also married Cerdo, and he was the father of Car.
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 The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, vol 2, pt 2, ch 20
Now the Greek word [[Phoroneus]] is the rigid equivalent of the Sanskrit word bhuranyu ('the rapid') an epithet of Agni, considered as the carrier of the divine spark.
Phoroneus, son of Melia or of the celestial ash, thus corresponds to a conception far more ancient, probably, than that one which transformed the pramantha (of the old Aryan Hindus) into the Greek Prometheus.
Traditions relating to the birth and origin of the race of Bronze, and those which made of Phoroneus the father of the Argians, are an evidence to us that this thunderbolt (or lightning), as in the legends of Hephaestus or Prometheus, was the origin of the human race" (266).
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 Greek Mythology: MELIA Oceanid Nymph of Boeotia & Argos ( also Argia )
She was probably the NAIAS of the Ismenian Spring of Thebes in Boiotia.
By her brother Inakhos, god of the Argive River of the same name, she had two sons: Phoroneus, the first king of Argos and the southern Peloponesse, and Aigialeus first king of Boiotia and the northern Peloponnese (Akhaia, Sikyon and Korinthos).
Melia in her role as the Nymphe of the Ismenian Spring of Thebes appears in a different guise as Melia, a Nymphe loved by Apollon, and Ismene.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 345 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
PHORONEUS (SopwyetJs), a son of Inachus and the Oceanid Melia or Archia, was a brother of Aegialeus and the ruler of Peloponnesus.
He was married to the nymph Laodice, by whom he became the father of Niobe, Apis, and Car.
Phoroneus is said to have been the first who offered sacrifices to Hera at Argos, and to have united the people, who until then had lived in scattered habitations, into a city which was called after him acrrv QopwviKov.
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 Phoroneus
Phoroneus is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Phoroneus (Greek) A son of Inachos and founder of Argos; he may be called the Argive Prometheus.
He was a carrier of the divine fire of spiritual intellect to men, whereby he made them participators -- when they proved themselves worthy of it -- in heavenly bliss.
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 Appendix - The Meaning of the name Astarte.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
110)--for the name is given in both ways--is said to have been the mother of Phoroneus, the first that reigned, in whose days the dispersion of mankind occurred, divisions having come in among them, whereas before, all had been in harmony and spoke one language (Hyginus, fab.
There is no other to whom this can be applied but Nimrod; and as Nimrod came to be worshipped as Nin, the son of his own wife, the identification is exact.
Melitta, then, the mother of Phoroneus, is the same as Mylitta, the well-known name of the Babylonian Venus; and the name, as being the feminine of Melitz, the Mediator, consequently signifies the Mediatrix.
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 Mycenae, Greek Mythology Link.
Antinous 2, one of the SUITORS OF PENELOPE, recalled that the city of Mycenae was named after Mycene, a beauty of former times, daughter of the river god Inachus and mother of the all-seeing Argus 1.
However, some have asserted that the city was named after Myceneus, son of Sparton 2, son of Phoroneus.
This Phoroneus has the reputation of being the first man; he was king of what was later called the Peloponnesus.
www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/Mycenae.html   (1293 words)

  
 The History of Ancient Greece
2.1.1b] Phoroneus, the son of Inachus, was the first to gather together the inhabitants of the land afterwards named Peloponnese, who up to that time had been scattered and living as isolated families.
Phoroneus begat Apis and Niobe by a nymph Teledice.
2.1.1c] Apis the son of Phoroneus reached such a height of power before Pelops came to Olympia that all the territory south of the Isthmus was called after him Apia.
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 Classical Mythology on Demodocus.com: Legends of the Argolid
Phoroneus was said to have first sacrificed to the goddess, Hera, and to have made the goddess a suit of armor.
Phoroneus was credited by the Argives with the discovery of fire, a contrast to the usual story of Prometheus.
  Gelanor, himself a descendant of Phoroneus, was first opposed to turning over his kingdom, but was swayed by an omen he observed.
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 History of Ancient Argos
Phoroneus was the Argian Prometheus, the hero who gave them the fire and their social qualities.
Phoroneus bore two children by the nymph Teledeke, Apis and Niobe.
The first name of Peloponnese was Apia and took her name from Apis, who was a harsh ruler.
www.sikyon.com /Argos/history_eg.html   (2916 words)

  
 The Two Babylons: The Child in Greece
For this very thing, he seems to have gained, as one of the titles by which men delighted to honour him, the title of the "Emancipator," or "Deliverer." The reader may remember a name that has already come under his notice.
The era of Phoroneus is exactly the era of Nimrod.
Phoroneus, in one of its meanings, and that one of the most natural, signifies the "Apostate." * That name had very likely been given him by the uninfected portion of the sons of Noah.
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 Greek Mythology: TELEDICE / TELEDIKE Naiad Nymph of Argos
She was the wife of an early king of the Peloponnese named Phoroneus, who lived in the time before the great Deluge.
Their daughter Niobe was the first mortal woman to be loved by Zeus.
By Melia, daughter of Okeanos, he had sons named Phoroneus and Aegialeus.
www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheTeledike.html   (135 words)

  
 Argos, Greek Mythology Link.
The founder of what was to become Argos, the 'City of Phoroneus', is Phoroneus, son of the river god Inachus, and said to be the first man. Phoroneus was king of what later was named the Peloponnesus [for the dispute over the patronage of Argos between Hera and Poseidon, see the latter].
Phoroneus' daughter Niobe 1, the first mortal woman whom Zeus loved, gave birth to Phoroneus' successor Argus 5, who called the Peloponnesus after himself, Argos.
During the reign of Gelanor, seventh king of this dynasty, the invasion of Danaus 1 took place, and Gelanor surrendered the kingdom of Argos to him.
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 The Two Babylons: The Nativity of St. John
In connection with the firs of "St. John," that relation is still further established by what has been handed down from antiquity in regard to these two divinities; and, at the same time, the origin of these fires is elucidated.
Phoroneus is described in such a way as shows that he was known as having been connected with the origin of fire-worship.
Then the character of the worship of Feronia, as coincident with fire-worship, is evident from the rites practised by the priests at the city lying at the foot of Mount Socracte, called by her name.
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 Preflood Traditions: The Weakness of John Pilkey's Origin of the Nations.
Phoroneus, for example, appears to be like Cain in that he is the second preflood king of Argos, who founded the first city, yet he also appears like Nimrod in a myth where, at a time when mankind lost its unity of language, he became the first king.
As Cain and Nimrod appear to have been the first imperial figures of their respective eras it is even possible to see where such a confusion could occur.
9 Deduced because Pilkey states that Phoroneus' father Inachus was the son of Mizraim.
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 A short chronicle
And before the days of Diodorus Siculus they had raised their Antiquities to much higher, as to place six, eight, or ten new Reigns of Kings between those Kings, whom they had represented to Herodotus to succeed one another immediately.
Lycaon the son of Pelasgus builds Lycosura; Phoroneus the son of Inachus, Phoronicum, afterwards called Argos; Aegialeus the brothe of Phoroneus and son of Inachus, Aegialeum, afterward called Sicyon: and these were the oldest towns in Peloponnesus.
Sesac Reigns in Egypt and adorns Thebes, dedicating it to his father Ammon by the name of No-Ammon or Ammon-No, that is the people or city of Ammon: whence the Greeks called it Diospolis, the city of Jupiter.
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 Does anyone actually want to discuss ATLANTIS? - Atlantis Rising
In regards to Phoroneus, by putting together sheets of geneologies and comparing the geneologies against each other, I was able to put together a list of contemporaries.
You continuously point to Plato's mention of Phoroneus, Niobe, and Deucalion as evidence of a far more ancient date for the destruction of Atlantis, but Plato quite clearly has the priest telling Solon that the genealogies Solon related were nothing more than "children's tales" (i.e.
Phoroneus, Niobe, & Deucalion are "red herrings" that lead people away from the heart of the matter (as are Theseus, Erichthonius, Erysichthon, and Cecrops).
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 Heroines
Apollodorus say that his source, Castor, who wrote the Chronicles, Io was daughter of the river-god Inachus and Melia.
The third possibility is that she was daughter of Iasus and was the descendants of Phoroneus.
For this possibility, I suggest you see the Early Kings of Argos in the Houses of Argolis.
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 Argos
Six miles distance from the city of Mykenae (Mycenae), lay the ancient city of Argos.
Founded by Phoroneus and named after his son, Argos is the second oldest city of Greece.
In the old times, it was of such significance, that Homer called all the Peloponnesians and often the rest of Greeks, Argians.
www.sikyon.com /Argos/argos_eg.html   (134 words)

  
 Apis - Acadine Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Such an animal was searched for throughout Egypt by the priests, and when found was treated as a god, being embalmed after death.
(2) The son of Phoroneus and Teledice, a king of Argos (3) The son of Apollo, and a cele­brated exponent of the healing art.
This page was last modified 13:32, 21 Apr 2005.
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 Fathers of the Second Century (iii.ii.xxxix)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The kings of the Argives were these: Inachus, Phoroneus, Apis, Criasis, Triopas, Argeius, Phorbas, Crotopas, Sthenelaus, Danaus, Lynceus, Prœtus, Abas, Acrisius, Perseus, Sthenelaus, Eurystheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamemnon, in the eighteenth year of whose reign Troy was taken.
But after Inachus, under Phoroneus, a check was with difficulty given to their savage and nomadic life, and they entered upon a new order of things.
Wherefore, if Moses is shown to be contemporary with Inachus, he is four hundred years older than the Trojan war.
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 Phoroneus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Phoroneus
For articles related to Phoroneus, see: Phoroneus, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul.
Definition of Phoroneus is extracted from the home page of The Theosophical Society, International Headquarters, Pasadena, California.
Please rate this article with 10 as very good and 1 as very poor.
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 Argolis
For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
Argolis owes its name to what became the main city of the region, Argos, itself named after several mythological heroes by the name Argos, the first of whom was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and the brother of Pelasgus.
Argos reigned over all of Peloponnese, which was then called Argolis (hence the name "Argives" which is often used in the Iliad to designate the Greeks as a whole).
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 Quotations on Prometheus
The name of this second ancestor and generator is Phoroneus, the hero of an ancient poem, now unfortunately no longer extant -- the Phoronidæ.
But the mother of Phoroneus was the nymph Melia; a significant descent which distinguishes him from Prometheus (SD ii, p.
These all create men, but fail in their final object.
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 Argos
In Peloponnesian legends, Inachus is said to have been the father of Phoroneus, the first human being (
Afraid of these boys, Danaus fled with his daughters and reached Argos where he overthrew the king of the time, Gelanor, last descendant of Phoroneus, to become king in his place.
But, after he had settled in Argos, his fifty nephews came after him to claim his daughters as wives.
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 HKHPE 47 03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For this very thing, he seems to have gained, as one of the titles by which men delighted to honour him, the title of the ‘Emancipator ‘ or ‘Deliverer.’ The reader may remember a name that has already come under his notice.
Phoroneus, in one of its meanings, and that one of the most natural, signifies the ‘Apostate.’
“Now, what could more graphically describe the position of mankind soon after the flood, and the proceedings of Nimrod as Phoroneus, ‘The Emancipator,’ than this Polynesian fable?
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 Comparison of Greek and Phoenician (mytho.) chronology - www.ezboard.com
this land, and that Inachus, the father of Phoroneus, was not a man but the
2.1.1b] Phoroneus, the son of Inachus, was the first
Phoroneus, succeeding to the throne [not long] after Phoroneus, gave his
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 MythHome: Names of Some of the 3000 Oceanids
Argia married the river god Inachus and had by him Phoroneus and Io
Melia consorted with the river god Inachus and gave birth to Aegialeus, the first inhabitant of Sicyon, Phoroneus, the first man, and Io [see also Argia above in this list].
Melia was also loved by Apollo and she gave birth to the seer Tenerus and Ismenus
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