Lydians

Gyges spies on Candaules and his wife

The Lydians were an Anatolian people group of Asia Minor who supported Troy in the Trojan War. The land and it's people were first called Maeonia after it's first ruler Manes, it came to be known as Lydia after Manes' grandson Lydus. Mount Sipylus and Mount Tmolos are important mountains in the region of Lydia.

Manes and his son Atys are said by some scholars as the same as Tmolos and his son Tantalus, although Strabo accounts however that they merely just ruled over the area of Lydia at the same time. The Atyids ruling over near Mt. Sipylus and the Tmolids ruling over near Mt. Tmolus.

Arachne was a famous Lydian.

Rulers

Atyids and Tmolids, ruling over Lydia at the same time.

1. Manes, son of Zeus and Gaia
2. Atys, son of Manes
3. Lydus, son of Atys
4. Iardanus, son of Atys

1. Tmolus, Mountain god of Tmolus in Lydia
2. Omphale, wife of Tmolus and daughter of Iardanus
3. Tantalus, son of Tmolus or Zeus and Plouto
4. Dascylus, son of Tantalus, may or may not be the same as Gyges' father
5. Tantalus, grandson of Tantalus through Broteas or great grandson through Thyestes

   

   Croesus on his pyre

Heraclidae

1. Agron, son of Ninus, grandson of Belus, great-grandson of Alcaeus, great-great-grandson of Heracles and Omphale, who gained the kingdom via an oracle
2. Alcymius, son of Agron
3. Adrymetes, son of Alcymius
4. Cambletes, son of Adymetes
5. Theodymus, son of Cambletes
6. Marysus, son of Theodymus
7. Iardanus, son of Marsyus
8. Tylus or Tylon, son of Iardanus, otherwise Heracles with Omphale
9. 10 more kings (names unknown) sons from their fathers
10. Ardys, son of his predecessor
11. Alyattes, son of Ardys
12. Meles, son of Alyattes
13. Candaules, son of Meles

Gygids

1. Gyges, husband of Candaules' widow
2. Ardys, son of Gyges
3. Sadyattess, son of Ardys
4. Alyattes, son of Sadyattes
5. Croesus, son of Alyattes, defeated by the Persians