Karan (Karanos) – First and one of the thirteen Macedonian mythological kings before the historic king Perdicca and, presented as the founder of the First Macedonian Royal Dynasty. The myth of him explains the symbolism of the goat in the Macedonians and especially the Royal courtyard. His honest insertion of the royal list in the Macedonian tradition is probably originating from the time of the reign of King Archelaus I. There are hypotheses for his introduction of the Royal List as a kind of mythical personification or as part of the Macedonian propaganda for God’s ancient origin from the Pelonsponian Argos, but it is possible for a historical person. According to the Byzantine historian Synkel, Karan was elevenths in a row of heroic genus of Herakloid, and seventh of dark. In Macedonia he ruled 28 G., and that 18 d. Before the First Olympics (794 PR. N.E.). According to Satir, he is the ninth of Herklaids, and according to Constantine ⅶ Porphyrogenit, he is the third son of Heracles. Dysorors, Biblehead Historor, Leithzig, 1896; Justini, Historiaum PiLeppypeptum Edge Thread Pompeiio, Parisiis, Mdcaccji,; F. YACOBS, Die Fragmen Der Greenizhiszhen Historik, Berlin, 1923-30, Leiden, 1940-58. Lit.: N. Proceed, studies on ancient Macedonians, Skopje, 1997; N. D. L. Hammond And T. Griffith, and chistoras of Macendonia ⅱ, Odford, 1979. K. M.R. Vasko Karangeleski
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