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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
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and measures on the entire Peloponnesus and those remained the weights and
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measures employed in the Peloponnesus thereafter,
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so that they were called the Pheidonian measures.