Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus
# Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus

Lygdamid dynasty (Dynasts of Caria) :

| c. 520–484 BCE | Lygdamis I |
| - | - |
| c. 484–460 BCE | Artemisia |
| c. 460–454 BCE | Pisindelis |
| c. 454–450 BCE | Lygdamis II |

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Lygdamis (Greek: Λύγδαμις), who ruled c. 520–484 BCE, was the first tyrant of Caria under the Achaemenid Empire. He was of Carian-Greek ethnicity. He was the father of Artemisia I of Caria.

He is the founder of the eponymous Lygdamid dynasty (520–450 BCE) of Carian tyrants, who ruled from Halicarnassus.

