His son, Electryon, became the second of the dynasty but the succession was disputed by the Taphians under Pterelaos, another Perseid, who assaulted Mycenae and losing retreated with the cattle.

With her he had a son, Eurystheus the fourth and last of the Perseid dynasty.

When the Perseid dynasty came to an end, the Myceneans received an oracle saying they should choose a son of Pelops as their king.

Perseus (), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans there, was the first of the heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians.

Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseids | Perseid meteor shower.

* The middle week of August is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

Heracles had been a Perseid.

Since the Perseid Meteor Shower typically occurs every year in mid-August, on or near Saint Lawrence's feast day, some refer to the shower as the " Tears of Saint Lawrence.

The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle.

The Perseid meteor shower has been observed for about 2000 years, with the earliest information on this meteor shower coming from the Far East.

A Perseid in 2007.

Chimera, the 1972 National Book Award-winning novel by John Barth, includes a novella called Perseid that is an inventive, postmodern retelling of the myth of Perseus.

Because of the Perseid meteor shower, the next launch window did not open until the second week of August.

He discovered or co-discovered numerous comets, including 55P / Tempel-Tuttle ( parent body of the Leonid meteor shower, discovered by Tuttle January 6, 1866 ), and 109P / Swift-Tuttle ( parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, disc.

Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama and her interest in astronomy started with the 1919 Perseid meteor shower that she saw with her mother.

Astronomy events at the observatory continued through the remainder of 2009 and 2010, such as Perseid meteor shower events both years that drew high attendance and media coverage.

Special moments on which many people like to go to the observation field include the peak of the Perseid showers, on the 11th of August, should the camp be taking place at that time.

For example, the meteoroids associated with the Perseid meteor shower travel at an average speed of 58 km / s.

Electrical anomalies associated with impact events include ESA's Olympus spacecraft, which lost attitude control during the 1993 Perseid meteor shower.

A similar event occurred with the Landsat 5 spacecraft during the 2009 Perseid meteor shower.

The Rendezvous and Pow Wow coincide with the Perseid meteor shower.

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

However, the Hotaki dynasty came to a complete end in 1738 after being toppled by the Afsharids who were led by Nader Shah of Khorasan.

With Hugh's coronation, a new era began for France, and his descendants came to be named the Capetians, with the Capetian dynasty ruling France for more than 800 years ( 987 – 1848, with some interruptions ).

On 9 June 68, amidst growing opposition of the Senate and the army, Nero committed suicide, and with him the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.

After the Shehab dynasty converted to Christianity, the Druze community and feudal leaders came under attack from the regime with the collaboration of the Catholic Church, and the Druze lost most of their political and feudal powers.

The Holy Roman Empire, which was an Elective monarchy, came to be dominated by the Habsburg dynasty, who would turn it into a hereditary position in all but name.

With his death, the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.

The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region known as Francia in Latin, largely corresponding to ancient Gaul, for 300 years from the middle of the 5th century.

Raghava Deva is said to have founded a ruling dynasty in 879 AD, when the Lichhavi rule came to an end.

As the Kirat dynasty came to an end in the valley, parts still remained in the eastern mountains where they are considered to be the forefathers of today.

Smoking of opium came on the heels of tobacco smoking and may have been encouraged by a brief ban on the smoking of tobacco by the Ming emperor, ending in 1644 with the Qing dynasty, which had encouraged smokers to mix in increasing amounts of opium.

Perhaps one of the first ideological movements towards privatization came during China's golden age of the Han dynasty.

But archaeology findings so far showed that Han dynasty armies were generally using straight single-edged blades, and curved-blades didn't came along until centuries later.

At this early time also, from the south came the influence of scholars under the Pāla dynasty in the Indian state of Magadha.

The third dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu came to power, ruling between ca.

The following ( and current ) Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouite Dynasty which came to power in 1659, appears to have continued to exercise some degree of sovereignty over the modern Western Sahara, although the slow collapse of central authority through the 19th century, which ended in European colonial rule, no doubt attenuated that.

This variation might suggest the early rulers came from a hybrid Anglo-British dynasty or that the rule of early Wessex shifted between more than one royal clan, but this is conjecture.

In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild.

Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus came to an end with the death of Nero in 68.

When Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar dynasty, eventually came to power, he wreaked his revenge on Shiraz by destroying the city's fortifications and moving the national capital to Tehran.

Shortly after, the Komnenos dynasty came into succession and halted the decline of the empire.

The kingdom came under many rulers: the Habsburg dynasties of both Spain and Austria ; the Franco-Spanish Bourbon dynasty which created the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, and then French Marshal Joachim Murat, who was executed in the small town of Pizzo.

The native dynasty came to an end, but the city continued to flourish.