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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 ]
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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.
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The ivory chest of Cypselus was richly worked and adorned with gold. It was a votive offering at Olympia, where Pausanias gave it a minute description in his 2nd century AD travel guide. [20] Cypselus grew up and fulfilled the prophecy. Corinth had been involved in wars with Argos and Corcyra, and the Corinthians were unhappy with their rulers.
The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there was a council of archons which exerted a form of executive government. From the late 8th century BC there were three archons: the archon eponymos, the polemarchos (originally with a military role, which was transferred to the ten strategoi in 501 BC), and the archon basileus (the ceremonial vestige of the Athenian ...
753 Athens: Office of Archon reduced to 10 years. Members of the ruling family to possess the office starting with Charops. (Dating based on Pausanias). 743 Rhegion is founded by Euboeans; 740 Zancle is founded by Euboeans; 738 Alternative date for the end of the First Messenian War. 737 Rhegion and Zancle join in union under Zancle
Calliades – archon of Athens; Callia – three; Athenian statesman, comic poet, nobleman; Callias of Syracuse – historian; Callicrates – architect; Calicrates of Leontium – Acheaean statesman; Callicratidas – Spartan general; Callicratidas of Cyrene, a general [6] Callicratides – Spartan general; Callimachus (polemarch) – Athenian ...