title: Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus
text: # 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.
  
  