Mermnadae

Me'rmnadae

(Μερμνάδαι), a Lydian family, which, on the murder of Candaules by Gyges, succeeded the Heracleidae on the throne of Lydia, and held it for five generations, during a period of 170 years (about 716-546). The successive sovereigns of this family were Gyges, Ardys, Sadyattes, Alyattes, Croesus. (See these articles, and comp. Deioces; also Thirlwall's Greece, vol. ii. pp. 157, 158; Clint. F. H. vol. i. sub anno 716, vol. ii. App. xvii.) [E.E]

Mermnadae Mermnadae, the reigning dynasty in Lydia from Gyges to Croesus

• Hdt. 1.7, Hdt. 1.14