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The Argives and Pheidon as king of Argos,
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were engaged in a conflict with Sparta as to
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who would be the dominant force in the Peloponnesus,
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and they fought a battle at a place called Hysiae in the 668
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in which the Argives under Pheidon undefeated the Spartans,
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and really defeated him; it wasn't just a little skirmish.
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They were now the top dog,
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as proven by the following other alleged facts about what's going on here.
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Pheidon got himself elected chairman, president of the Olympic Festival.
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That was a tremendous honor and
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it indicated deference to him and scholars suggest,
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if it really happened, it would have suggested that