See also:

• DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)

DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)  , according to See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (i . 96 ff.) the first See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of the Medes . He narrates that, when the Medes had rebelled against the Assyrians and gained their See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence about 710 B.C., according to his See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology (cf . Diodor. ii . 32), they lived in villages without any See also:

• POLITICAL

political organization, and therefore the whole See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country was in a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of anarchy . Then See also:

• DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)

Deioces, son of See also:

• PHRAORTES

Phraortes, an illustrious See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of upright See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, was chosen See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge in his See also:

• VILLAGE

village, and the justness of his decisions induced the inhabitants of the other villages to throng to him . At last the Medes resolved to make an end of the intolerable state of their country by erecting a See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom, and See also:

• CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

chose Deioces king . He now caused them to build a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, See also:

• ECBATANA (Agbatana in Aeschylus, Hangmatana in Old Persian, written Agamtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun, mod. Hamadan)

Ecbatana, with a royal See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, and introduced the ceremonial of See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental courts; he surrounded himself with a guard and no longer showed himself to the See also:

• PEOPLE

people, but gave his judgments in See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing and controlled the people by officials and spies . He See also:

• UNITED

united all the Median tribes, and ruled fifty-three years (c . 699-647 B.C.), though perhaps, as G . See also:

• RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902)
• RAWLINSON, RICHARD (169o-1755)
• RAWLINSON, SIR HENRY CRESWICKE (1810—1895)
• RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810—1898)

Rawlinson supposed, the fifty-three years of his reign are exchanged by See also:

• MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake with the twenty-two years of his son Phraortes, under whom the Median conquests began . The narration of Herodotus is only a popular tradition which derives the origin of kingship from its judicial functions, considered as its See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal and most beneficent aspect .

We know from the See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions that just at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time which Herodotus assigns to Deioces the See also:

• MEDEA (Gr. Mi/Seta)

Medea were divided into numerous small principalities and subjected to the great Assyrian conquerors . Among these See also:

• PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (1623-1687)

petty chieftains, See also:

• SARGON

Sargon in 715 mentions Dayukku, " See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant of Man " (he probably was, therefore, a See also:

• VASSAL (Fr. vassal, vassaut, vassault, &c,)

vassal of the neighbouring king of Man in the mountains of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-eastern See also:

• ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)

Armenia), who joined the Urartians and other enemies of See also:

• ASSYRIA

Assyria, but was by Sargon transported to Hamath in See also:

• SYRIA

Syria with his See also:

• CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan." His See also:

• DISTRICT

district is called " See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit-Dayaukki," " See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. 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 . So it seems that the See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty, which more than See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century later succeeded in throwing off the Assyrian yoke and founded the Median See also:

• EMPIRE

empire, was derived from this Dayukku, and that his name was thus introduced into the Median traditions, which contrary to See also:

• HISTORY

history considered him as founder of the kingdom . (ED .