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Lygdamis

4. Tyrant of Halicarnassus, the son of Pisindelis, and the grandson of Arternisia. The historian Herodotus is said to have taken an active part in delivering his native city from the tyranny of this Lygdamis. [HERODOTUS, p. 431b.]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.