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The kerykes / ˈ k ɛ r ɪ ˌ k iː z / or ceryces / ˈ s ɛ r ɪ ˌ s iː z / (Ancient Greek: Κήρυκες, pl. of Κῆρυξ, Keryx) [1] of Bronze Age Pylos 1200 BC, home to the aged Homeric hero Nestor and the Neleides, [2] are listed in the Linear B tablets as 𐀏𐀬𐀐 ka-ru-ke serving the 𐀨𐀷𐀒𐀪 ra-wa-ko-ri, the commander of armed forces. [3]
In Homer’s time, ceryx was a profession of trusted attendants or retainers of a chieftain. The role of ceryces / ˈ s ɛ r ɪ ˌ s iː z / expanded, however, to include acting as inviolable messengers between states, even in time of war, proclaiming meetings of the council, popular assembly, or court of law, reciting there the formulas of prayer, and summoning persons to attend.
Kerekes was born and grew up in the Bedford Township area of Michigan, and attended Bedford High School. Kerekes formed the band Citizen in 2009 and played their first show on January 28, 2010, at Frankie's Inner City in Toledo, Ohio where they opened for Set Your Goals.
In the 96th Olympiad (396 BC), beside the athletic and artistic competitions, [1] the Herald and Trumpet contest was added, which was already a formal element of the Olympic ritual performed by the kerykes (heralds) and salpinktai (trumpeters).
In ancient Greece, heralds functioning as private messengers or public criers were referred to as kerykes. The keryx has functions in political, military, judicional and religious matters. He was identified by his attribute, the herald's staff or kerykeion, in Latin caduceus. The attribute also offered him protection.
Publius Herennius Dexippus (Greek: Δέξιππος; c. 210–273 AD), Greek historian, statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of archon basileus and eponymous in Athens. [1]
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Andocides was the son of Leogoras, and was born in Athens around 440 BC. [2] He belonged to the ancient Eupatrid family of the Kerykes, who traced their lineage up to Odysseus and the god Hermes.