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Cypselus (Ancient Greek: Κύψελος, Kypselos) was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings ; Corinth, the richest archaic polis , led the way. [ 1 ]
Periander was the second tyrant of Corinth [3] and the son of Cypselus, the founder of the Cypselid dynasty. Because of his father, he was called Cypselides (Κυψελίδης). [4] Cypselus’ wife was named Cratea. There were rumors that she and her son, Periander, slept together. [5]
Corinth (British English: / ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth, American English: / ˈ k ɔːr ɪ n θ /; Ancient Greek: Κόρινθος Korinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
Cypselus overthrew the Bacchiad family, and between 657 and 585 BC, he and his son Periander ruled Corinth as the Tyrants. In about 585 BC, an oligarchical government seized power. This government later allied with Sparta within the Peloponnesian League , and Corinth participated in the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War as an ally of Sparta.
Corinthus, the eponymous founder of the city of Corinth and the adjacent land. According to the local Corinthian tradition, he was a son of Zeus, but this tradition was not followed elsewhere. [2] Corinthus, son of Marathon, who ruled over Corinth.
Herodotus, who calls the place a deme (a district or municipality), mentions Petra as the origin of Cypselus, tyrant of Corinth. When he was a child, the Bacchiadae family, then reigning in Corinth, planned to assassinate him to try to avoid an oracle that had predicted that the child was going to overthrow them. That is why several of them ...
Later a prominent branch of the clan were based at Lakiadae west of Athens. In the late 7th century BC a Philaid called Agamestor married the daughter of Cypselus, the powerful tyrant of Corinth. In 597 BC a man named Cypselus was archon of Athens. This Cypselus was probably grandson of the Corinthian tyrant of the same name and son of Agamestor.
Sosicles remonstrated with indignant vehemence against the measure, and set forth the evils which Corinth had endured under the successive tyrannies of Cypselus and Periander. His appeal was successful with the allies, and the project was abandoned. Herodotus records the speech (Herod, v. 92, 93.; bk6 chs312-315). His record of it is probably ...