apr 1, 668 BC - *King of Argon (Pheidon) Unifies Weights and Measures Throughout Peloponnesus

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It is the fact, I don't hesitate to use that fact, that Pheidon or Argos apparently imposed a system of uniform weights and measures on the entire Peloponnesus and those remained the weights and measures employed in the Peloponnesus thereafter, so that they were called the Pheidonian measures. You don't do that if you're not in effective control of the region pg. 94

Another very interesting important element about Pheidon. Aristotle tells us he was a king who became a tyrant, and by now you know the Greek words, he was basileus, who became tyrannos. Well, if we imagine that's the way Pheidon began and then--I'm just making up the story you understand--then he himself led the Argive phalanx to these tremendous successes, defeating the Spartans, establishing Argos as the president of the Olympic Games, giving weights measures and heaven help us maybe coins to the people of the Peloponnesus and then began to act as though he really was the boss, because he could, and people recognized that and said, you know he's not just king anymore, he has made himself a tyrannos. Something like that would make sense of Aristotle's statement. pg. 95

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