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However, the coup was opposed by the masses, and Cylon and his supporters took refuge in Athena's temple on the Acropolis. According to Thucydides, while many of them suffered from famine and dehydration during their time of refuge, Cylon and his brother escaped, but his followers were cornered by Athens' nine archons. [4]
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
His son-in-law, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon, himself made an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Athens in 632 BCE. However, the coup was opposed by the people of Athens, who forced Cylon and his supporters to take refuge in Athena's temple on the Acropolis. Cylon and his brother escaped, but his followers were cornered by Athens' nine ...
632 Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries unsuccessfully to make himself king; 631 Battus establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya. 630 Helorus is founded and annexed by Syracuse; 630 Histria is established by Milesian settlers in order to facilitate trade with the native Getae. 630 Founding of Tripolis by Samos
The second Megacles was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family, and the archon eponymous in 632 BC when Cylon made his unsuccessful attempt to take over Athens. Megacles was convicted of killing Cylon's supporters (who had taken refuge on the Acropolis as suppliants of Athena) and was exiled from the city, along with all the other members of his genos, the Alcmaeonidae.
632 BC—Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes the Acropolis in a failed attempt to become king. 632 BC—In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of Chu and her allies. 631 BC—Founding of Cyrene, a Greek colony in Libya (North Africa) (approximate date).
Bluebeard pediment, Acropolis Museum, Akr. 35. There are two distinct theories of the location of the Temple of the Polias. [18] The first is that a modest seventh century temple (perhaps the second temple on the site, this is conjectured from the two column bases found within the Dörpfeld foundation) stood on the north side of the Acropolis only until the second quarter of the sixth century ...
The Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens are the natural fissures in the rock of the Acropolis hill that were used as sites of worship for deities of the Panhellenic pantheon in antiquity. Traditionally a sharp distinction has been drawn between the state religion practised on the summit of the Acropolis and the cult practice of the ...