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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
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the Argives and Pheidon were the dominant force in the Peloponnesus.
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And there is further evidence, and this is really rather better evidence,
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I think even than that.
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It is the fact,I don't hesitate to use that fact,
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that Pheidon or Argos apparently imposed a system of uniform weights