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Encyclopedia Britannica



CODRUS

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 637 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
CODRUS , in
Greek
 
legend
 , the last king of Athens. According to the story, it was prophesied at the time of the Dorian invasion of
Peloponnesus
  (c. ro68 B.C.) that only the death of their king at the enemy's hands could ensure victory to the Athenians. De-voting himself to his country, Codrus, in the disguise of a
peasant
 , made his way into the enemy's
camp
 , and provoked a quarrel with some Dorian soldiers. He
fell
 , and the
Dorians
 , on discovering that Codrus had been slain, retreated homeward, despairing of success. No one being thought worthy to succeed Codrus, the
title
  of king was abolished, and that of archon (q.v.) substituted for it.
See Lycurgus, Leocr. xx. [=84-871;
Justin
  ii. 6; Vell. Pat. i. 2: Grote, Hist. of
Greece
 , pt. i. ch. 18; Busolt, Griechische Geschichte, i.


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