Son of Niobe(daughter of Foroneas) and Zeus, first mortal wife in mythology. He is supposed to be the first who taught the cultivation of wheat, since he brought seeds from Libya. During excavations in the 6th primary school, in 1972, conserved wheat was found in an ancient pot.
This wheat is called Libyan. Proof of this we take from the fact that the plain of Argolis is mentioned from Homer as Libyan Field. He also named the all the Greeks citizens of Argos, because according to Homer, Argos meant the same thing as greece today.
He is assumed the great-grandfather of a whole generation. He was the first ancestor of the family of the leaders of Argos - the longest leadership in the whole world, after them come in leader's population the 24 Pharaohs of Egypt-, 1970 B.C. or approximately 1100 years before the first Olympics in 776 B.C.
According to another legend, Inahos is supposed to be aborigine citizen of Argos, whereas another assumes that, he came from Melabodia - Egypt - as the leader of a big group of fugitives which disembarked in Argos.
Whichever his origine is, he is recognised as the chief of all families and one of the leaders of the nation of the Greeks. He is also supposed to be first founder of many cities in Peloponnese and in Continental Greece. The whole dominion was given his name. This family, from 1970 B.C till the Greek-Persian wars, was never interrupted, except only from Orestes.
Inahos was the first person in the prehistory of Argos, who played a great role in the later history and progress of the place, as well as of the whole Greek area.
Foroneas, son of Inahos is the one who first gothered the people in groups, communities, whereas they used to live single in caves, woods and the mountains. To honour the maker of this gothering the town took his name(1900 B.C.).
He was the first founder of Justice in Mediterranean.
He is assumed the hero of the citizens of Argos. He discovered the fire and first taught its use to people, and not Prometheus as we know today.
He directed people to a more quiet life and he clothed them with leather robes and brought them to wedding engagement, after he legislated some natural laws.
The people of Argos never forgot his contribution, so even centuries later, when Pafsanias arrived in Argos in 140 B.C., so in his grave the unsleeping light. Even today a road named after him exists in the town.
