Cypselus or Kypselos in Greek language Greek , was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Ancient Greece Greek city state s tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary sacred king priest king s Corinth, the richest archaic polis , led the way. ref J. B. Salmon , Wealthy Corinth. A History of the City to 338 B.C. Oxford Clarendon Press 1984. ref Like the Lord signori of late medieval and Renaissance Italy, the tyrant s usually seized power at the head of some popular support. Often the tyrants upheld existing laws and customs and were highly conservative as to cult practices, thus maintaining stability with little risk to their own personal security. As in Italian Renaissance Renaissance Italy , a cult of personality naturally substituted for the Divine right of kings divine right of the former legitimate royal house. After the last traditional king of Corinth, Bacchiadae Telestes , was assassinated by Arieus and Perantas , there were no more kings instead prytanes taken from the former royal house of the Bacchiadae ruled for a single year each. Cypselus, the son of Eetion E tion and a disfigured woman named Labda mythology Labda , who was a member of the Bacchiad family, the ruling ... of them could go through with the plan. An etiological myth element, to account for the name Cypselus ... Perseus . The cedar wood cedar chest of Cypselus, richly worked with mythological narratives and adorned ..., 5.18.7. ref When Cypselus had grown up, he fulfilled the prophecy. Corinth had been involved in wars ... BC, Cypselus was polemarch , the archon in charge of the military, and he used his influence with the soldiery ... Cypselus built at Delphi was apparently still standing in the time of Herodotus. Notes Reflist ... biography of Cypselus Rulers of Corinth Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Cypselus ... lb Kypselos nl Cypselus ja pl Kypselos pt C pselo ru sh Kipsel sv Kypselos uk ... more details
orphan date March 2010 According to Herodotus , Labda Greek language Greek polytonic was a daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion , and mother of Cypselus , by Eetion . ref Aelius Herodianus , v. 92. cited in Smith ref Her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the letter lambda polytonic ref Etymologicum Magnum p. 199. Compare Cypselus . cited in Smith ref , which, by the accounts of the most ancient Greek grammarians, was originally pronounced labda IPA el labda . References Labda. Leonhard Schmitz. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . William Smith, editor 1870 . reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Labda Mythology Category Ancient Greek women Greek myth stub pt Labda ... more details
E tion may refer to In Greek mythology Eetion E tion , King of the Cilician Thebe mentioned in the Iliad . E tion , ruler over the island of Imbros mentioned in the Iliad . He buys Priam s captured son Lycaon son of Priam Lycaon and restores him to his father. E tion , a Greek soldier who was killed by Paris mythology In Greek history E tion , the father of Cypselus , the first tyrant of Corinth . In biology Eetion , a genus of grass skipper butterflies disambig de Eetion Begriffskl rung el fr tion pl Eetion ... more details
Other persons Sosicles Sosicles was a Corinth ian ambassador at the remarkable meeting of the allies of Sparta at around 500 BC a guesstimate , before which the Spartans laid their proposal for restoring Hippias son of Pisistratus Hippias to the tyrant Hellenic tyrants tyranny of History of Athens Reform and democracy Athens . 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 not authentic as the meeting was secret and no Athenian could have heard. What is more likely is Herodotus using Sosicles to give an extended speech on the fault of tyranny and also to give a digression into Corinth s history. External links http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 3214.html Smith DEFAULTSORT Sosicles Category 6th century BC Greek people ... more details
Basilis lang el , Modern form Vas s ilis was an ancient settlement in Arcadia . It is a direct descendant of lang el , the Greek word for kingdom . Pausanias geographer Pausanias mentioned Basilis as a village in his Arcadica , which is his description of Arcadia. It was said to be founded by the banks of the Alfeios in the foot of the Lykaio mountain Lykaio mountains near the Arcadian Trapezus, Arcadia Trapezus . The settlement had a temple and statue of Demeter , which many of the settlers thought was Cypselus , son of Cresphontes . Basilis was one of the cites that colonized Megalopolis, Greece Megalopolus , which was founded by Epaminondas . Basilis was part of the archaic Parrhasia Arcadia Parrhasian province in Arcadia . Basilis was later abandoned. ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias Arcadica ref . The location of the ancient settlement remains unexcavated. It is believed to be located in the area between the Alfeios and Isoma . ref http arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr arkadia arcadia hist topics trapezounta.html CE 92 CE B1 CF 83 CE B9 CE BB CE AF CF 82 CE 91 CF 81 CE BA CE B1 CE B4 CE AF CE B1 CF 82&hl el&ct clnk&cd 1&gl gr&client firefox a arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr ref References references Category Parrhasia el ... more details
The Bacchiadae Ancient Greek Bakkhiadai , a tightly knit Dorians Doric clan , were the ruling family of Ancient Corinth archaic Corinth in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, a period of Corinthian cultural power. Corinth had been a backwater in eighth century Greece. ref douard Will, Korinthiaka recherches sur l histoire et la civilisation de Corinth des origines aux guerres m diques Paris Boccard 1955. ref In 747 BCE a traditional date an Aristocracy class aristocrat ic revolution ousted the Bacchiad kings of Corinth, when the royal clan of Bacchiadae, numbering perhaps a couple of hundred adult males and claiming descent from the Dorian Greek hero hero Heracles through the seven sons and three daughters of a legend ary king Bacchis , took power from the last king, Telestes . ref Telestes was murdered by Arieus and Perantas, who were themselves Bacchiads. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. I p. 450 . To what extent this early history is genealogical myth is debated. ref Practicising strict endogamy ref Herodotus 5.92.1. ref which kept clan outlines within a distinct extended oikos , they dispensed with kingship and ruled as a group, governing the city by electing annually a prytanis who held the kingly position ref Perhaps the designation king was retained, for reasons of Cult religion cult , as a king was normally an essential intercessor with the gods. Stewart Irvin Oost, Cypselus the Bacchiad Classical Philology 67 .1 January 1972, pp. 10 30 p. 10f. See rex sacrorum . ref for his brief term, ref Diodorus Siculus , 7.9.6 Pausanias geographer Pausanias 2.4.4. ref no doubt a council though none is specifically documented in the scant literary materials and a polemarch os to head the army. In 657 BCE the Bacchiadae were expelled in turn by the tyrant Cypselus , ref His mother had been of the Bacchiadae, but being lame, married outside the clan. ref who had been polemarch. The exiled Bacchiadae fled to Corcyra but also t ... more details
see also Titanomachy italictitle The Titanomachy Greek language Greek is a lost epic poem, which is a part of Greek mythology . It deals with the struggle that Zeus and his siblings, the Twelve Olympians Olympian Gods , had in overthrowing their father Cronus and his divine generation, the Titan mythology Titans . The poem was traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth , a semi legendary bard of the Bacchiadae Bacchiad ruling family in archaic Corinth , ref The Bacchiadae were exiled by the tyrant Cypselus about 657 BCE. ref who was treasured as the traditional composer of the Prosodion , the processional anthem of Messene Messenian independence that was performed on Delos . Even in Antiquity many authors cited Titanomachia without an author s name. Martin Litchfield West M. L. West ref name mlwest M.L. West, Eumelos A Corinthian Epic Cycle? The Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 2002 , pp. 109 133. The present article follows West s analysis. ref in analyzing the evidence concludes that the name of Eumelos was attached to the poem as the only name available. From the very patchy evidence, it seems that Eumelos account of the Titanomachy differed from the surviving account of Hesiod s Theogony at salient points. The 8th century BCE date for the poem is not possible West ascribes a late seventh century date as the earliest. ref name mlwest The Titanomachy was divided into at least two books. The battle of Twelve Olympians Olympians and Titan mythology Titans was preceded by some sort of theogony , or genealogy of the primal gods, in which, the Byzantine writer Joannes Laurentius Lydus Lydus remarked, ref De mensibus 4.71. ref the author of Titanomachy placed the birth of Zeus, not in Crete , but in Lydia , which should signify on Spil Mount Mount Sipylus . References reflist Category Ancient Greek epic poems Category Lost poems Category Greek mythology it Titanomachia poema ... more details
The Philaidae or Philaids were a powerful noble family of ancient Athens . They were conservative land owning aristocrats and many of them were very wealthy. The Philaidae produced two of the most famous generals in Athenian history Miltiades the Younger and Cimon . The Philaids claimed descent from the Greek mythology mythological Philaeus, son of Ajax mythology Ajax . The family originally came from Brauron in Attica . 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 ancient Corinth 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. In 566 BC a member of the Philaid clan, Hippocleides , was a suitor for the hand of Agariste of Sicyon Agariste , the daughter of the influential tyrant of Sicyon , Cleisthenes of Sicyon Cleisthenes . However Hippocleides lost out to Megacles from the rival Alcmaeonidae Alcmaeonid clan when Cleisthenes was unimpressed with a drunken Hippocleides who stood on his head and kicked his heels in the air at a banquet. ref Herodotus 6.129 130 ref Tyrants of the Thracian Chersonese In c.560 556 BC a Thracian tribe, the Dolonci , offered the rule of the Thracian Chersonese a peninsula in a strategic location dominating the grain route through the Hellespont to the Philaid Miltiades the Elder , the son of Cypselus the archon. Miltiades accepted the offer and became tyrant of the Chersonese. He built a wall across the Bulair Isthmus to protect the peninsula from raiders from Thrace. Peisistratos Pisistratus , the tyrant of Athens, did not object to Miltiades leaving Athens to set himself up as a semi independent ruler on the far side of the Aegean Sea as it removed a potential rival from the city and gave him a useful role as an ally of Athens in a strategically important location. Meanwhile a Philai ... more details
This is a list of tyrant s from Ancient Greece . Agrigentum Acragas Phalaris , 570 BC 554 BC Theron of Acragas Theron , 488 BC 472 BC Atarneus Hermias of Atarneus Athens Peisistratos Athens Pisistratus , 561 BC , 559 BC 556 BC and 546 BC 528 BC . Hipparchus tyrant Hipparchus 527 BC 514 BC and Hippias tyrant Hippias 527 BC 510 BC , sons of Pisistratus Hipparchus was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton , the original tyrannicide s. Theramenes , Critias , and Charicles leading members of the Thirty Tyrants following Athens defeat in the Peloponnesian War Argos Pheidon , around 650BC Byzantium Clearchus of Sparta , 5th century BC Corinth Cypselus or Kypselos , 7th century BC Periander , son of Cypselus Psammetichus, Periander s nephew, who succeeded him but his rule only lasted for three years Cyprus Nicocreon Ephesus Athenagoras of Ephesus Athenagoras , 6th century BC Pythagoras, 6th century BC Pindarus, around 560 BC Pasicles Gela Cleandrus of Gela Cleandrus , 505 BC 498 BC Hippocrates of Gela Hippocrates , 498 BC 491 BC Gelo n, 491 BC 485 BC Hieron I , 485 BC 466 BC Polyzalus ? Heraclea Pontica Clearchus of Heraclea Clearchus Timotheus of Heraclea Timotheus Dionysius of Heraclea Dionysius Oxyathres of Heraclea Oxyathres Halicarnassus Artemisia , 5th century BC Catania Katane Euarchus , 729 BC ? Deinomenes , 470 BC 465 BC Mamercus , 335 BC 338 BC Megara Theagenes of Megara Theagenes , 7th century BC Miletus Amphitres, late 8th or 7th century BC Thrasybulus tyrant Thrasybulus , 7th century BC Histiaeus , 6th century BC Aristagoras , 6th century BC Aeinautae Thoas , 6th century BC Aeinautae Damasanor , 6th century BC Timarchus of Miletus Timarchus , 3rd century BC Mytilene Melandrus, late 7th century BC Myrsilus, late 7th century BC, Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus was against him Coes of Mytilene Coes , 5th century BC Naxos Island Naxos Lygdamis of Naxos Lygdamis , 6th century BC Pellene Chaeron Pherae Jason of Pherae Jason , assassinated 370 BC Alexander of Pherae Alex ... more details
In Ancient Greece ancient Greek culture , Dik Greek language Greek , English language English translation justice was the spirit of moral order and fair judgement based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced Norm sociology norms and Convention norm conventional rules . According to Hesiod Theogony , l. 901 , she was fathered by Zeus upon his second consort, Themis . Depiction The sculptures of the Temple of Zeus Temple of Zeus at Olympia have as their unifying iconographical conception the dik of Zeus, ref Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Narrative Resonance in the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia The Art Bulletin 69.1 March 1987 6 15 . ref and in poetry she is often the attendant paredros of Zeus. ref For example, in Sophocles Oedipus at Colonna , 1377, or in Plutarch s Life of Alexander 52, or, in yet another tradition, in the Orphic hymn 61. 2. ref In the philosophical climate of late 5th century Athens, dik could be Anthropomorphism anthropomorphised ref See Walter Burkert , The special character of Greek anthropomorphism , in Greek Religion III.4 Harvard University Press 1985 182 89. ref as a goddess of morality moral justice . ref She is already given a genealogy, as daughter of Themis , in Hesiod , Theogony 901, and approaches the throne of Zeus with lamentation at human injustices in Works and Days , 239f, both poems ca. late seventh century BCE. ref She was one of the three second generation Horae , along with Eunomia goddess Eunomia order and Eirene Greek goddess Eirene peace blockquote Eunomia and that unsullied fountain Dik , her sister, sure support of cities and Eirene of the same kin, who are the stewards of wealth for mankind three glorious daughters of wise counselled Themis. ref Pindar , Thirteenth Olympian Ode 6 ff Conway, tr. . ref blockquote She ruled over human justice, while her mother Themis ruled over divine justice. Her opposite was adikia injustice in reliefs on the archaic Cypselus Chest of Cypselus preserved at O ... more details
Oost, Cypselus the Bacchiad Classical Philology 67 .1 January 1972, pp. 10 30 p. 10f. See rex sacrorum ... tomb points toward the Corinthian country while Diocles faces away. ref Politics , 1274a ref Cypselus ... Cypselus , ref His mother had been of the Bacchiadae, but being lame, married outside the clan. ref who had been polemarch. The exiled Bacchiadae fled. Corinth under the tyrants main CypselusCypselus ... 658 628 BC, Cypselus removed the Bacchiad aristocracy from power and ruled for three decades. He built temples to Apollo and Poseidon in 650 BC. Aristotle reports that Cypselus of Corinth had made a vow ..., Aristotle ref In the 7th century BC, when Corinth was ruled by the tyrants Cypselus r. 657 627 ... substituted for the divine right of kings divine right of the former legitimate royal house. Cypselus ... with the plan. An Etiology etiological myth element, to account for the name Cypselus cypsele , chest ... chest of Cypselus, richly worked with mythological narratives and adorned with gold , was a votive ... in his 2nd century AD travel guide. ref Pausanias, 5.18.7. ref When Cypselus had grown up ... were unhappy with their rulers. At the time, around 657 BC , Cypselus was polemarch , the archon ... does not confirm exact date The treasury Cypselus built at Delphi was apparently still standing in the time of Herodotus, and the chest of Cypselus was seen by the traveler Pausanias at Olympia in the 2nd ... more details
nobots Merope Ancient Greek polytonic was the daughter of King Cypselus of Arcadia and wife of Cresphontes , the Heracleidae Heraclid king of Messenia . After the murder of her husband and her two older children by Polyphontes another Heraclid , Merope was forced to marry the murderer, but she managed to save her youngest son, Aepytus , whom she sent secretly to Aetolia . Several years later, when Aepytus grew up, he killed Polyphontes with the collaboration of Merope, and he took revenge for the murder of his relatives and the insult to his mother Euripides Cresphontes Euripides based his lost tragedy Cresphontes on this myth. According to Hyginus description of the plot Fabulae 184 , Merope s son in this version also named Cresphontes , once grown, set in motion the plan to avenge his father s death by presenting himself incognito to Polyphontes as his own killer, claiming the price Polyphontes had put on his head. As the tired young man slept, Merope, believing the sleeping man to be her son s murderer, came into the room with an axe, unwittingly intending to slay her own son trans. Cropp, p. 121 . Plutarch quotes a line spoken by Merope in this scene in his essay On Meat Eating Moralia http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer E Roman Texts Plutarch Moralia De esu carnium 2.html ref34 998e and adds, what a stir she rouses in the theatre as she brings them to their feet in terror lest she wound the youth before the old man who had served as secret messenger between mother and son can stop her Aristotle cites this as an intended action that would have been performed involuntarily due to Merope s ignorance of the particular circumstances of the action one might think one s son was an enemy, as Merope did Nicomachean Ethics III.1, 1111a11 12, trans. W. D. Ross Ross . Hyginus continues When Merope realised her enemy had given her the opportunity of avenging herself, she made things up with Polyphontes. As the joyful king was performing a religious ceremony his ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Melas refers to a number of characters. Melas , son of Poseidon and an unnamed nymph of Chios , brother of Agelus. ref name Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 4. 8 Pausanias , Description of Greece , 7. 4. 8 ref He may or may not be identical to Melas , son of Poseidon, who was said to have given his name to the river Melas in Egypt , which was later renamed Nile . ref Pseudo Plutarch , On Rivers , 16 ref Melas , one of the sons of Phrixus and Chalciope . ref Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 1. 9. 1 ref ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 3 ref By Eurycleia, daughter of Athamas and Themisto , he became the father of Hyperes. ref Scholia on Pindar , Pythian Ode 4. 221 ref Melas , one of the sons of Porthaon and Euryte . ref Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 1. 7. 10 ref He was the father of Pheneus, Euryalus, Hyperlaus, Antiochus, Eumedes, Sternops, Xanthippus and Sthenelaus, who were all slain by Tydeus for plotting against their uncle Oeneus . ref Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 1. 8. 5 ref Melas , one of the Tyrrhenian pirates who attempted to delude Dionysus but were transformed into dolphins by him. ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 134 ref Melas , son of Licymnius . He and his brother Argius accompanied Heracles in his campaign against Eurytus , and both fell in the battle. ref Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 2. 7. 7 ref Melas , son of Oenopion and brother of Talus, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas. He, together with his father and brothers, sailed from Crete to Chios and settled there. ref name Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 4. 8 Melas , son of Antasus, from Gonusa near Sicyon . He expressed desire to join the Dorians in their expedition against Corinth . Aletes consulted the oracle of Apollo about him the god expressed disapproval, and Aletes at first told Melas to go and search for other allies among the Greeks, but then changed his mind and, neglecting the prophecy, let him join. Melas was the ancestor of Cypselus . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 2. 4. 4 ... more details
book Wealthy Corinth 1984 stated that the temple was constructed under the reign of Cypselus ref ... Broneer s suggestions as Cypselus did not achieve power until 657 BC, and so would put ... would mean that it could have been possible for it to have been constructed during Cypselus reign ... only of Cypselus reign in passing, being one of great prosperity, and of the battles and beginning ..., as suggested earlier Cypselus is noted as a candidate but it could well have been before his ... more details
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about Theagenes the Tyrant other uses Theagenes disambiguation There are merely a few references to the life of Theagenes of Megara Lang grc amongst the ancient authors, which makes outlining a vague biography almost impossible. What we do know is that Theagenes of Megara was among the first of Ancient Greece Greek tyrant s, possibly inspired by Cypselus of neighbouring Corinth . Aristotle s Rhetoric mentions that Theagenes of Megara asked for a body guard. He states that he who is plotting tyranny asks for a body guard. He is compared with Pisistratus , who when granted it a body guard became a tyrant , a possible insight into how Theagenes managed to gain control of Megara and also insight into how the Greek concept of tyrannus might be linked with a body guard. ref Aristotle. Rhetoric , 1357b. ref He slaughtered the flocks of the rich, as Aristotle mentions in his Politics . ref Aristotle. Politics , 1305a 22 4. ref Prior to mentioning Theagenes slaughter, he gives some insight into why this may have occurred They would do this because they had the confidence of the people, a confidence based upon hostility to the rich. This is paralleled again by Aristotle with Pisistratus leading a revolt of dwellers on the plain. Aristotle mentions that military men aimed at tyranny, this might hint that Theagenes might have been a general by profession who could be paralleled with Pittacus of Mytilene Pittacus the Mytilene Mytilenaean general turned tyrant. Thucydides also states that Cylon ancient Athenian Cylon , a victor at Olympic Games Olympia , married Theagenes daughter. After Cylon had consulted the Delphic Oracle , the gods told him to seize the Athens Athenian Acropolis . It was from Theagenes that he obtained a force. He tried about 630 people in the courts to help his son in law Cylon get to power in Athens Cylon succeeded with a view to making himself a tyrant. ref Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War , 1.126. ref He built a fountain h ... more details
List of state leaders in 660s BC 660s BC state leaders 650s BC Events of 650s BC List of state leaders in 640s BC 640s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa Egypt Twenty fifth Dynasty of Egypt Twenty fifth Dynasty in Kingdom of Kush Kush Tantamani , List of pharaohs Pharaoh of Egypt 660s BC 664 BC 650s BC 653 BC Twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt Twenty sixth Dynasty Psamtik I , Pharaoh of Egypt 664 BC 600s BC 610 BC Asia China Zhou Dynasty King Hui of Zhou Hui of Zhou , List of Chinese monarchs King of China 670s BC 676 BC 650s BC 652 BC King Xiang of Zhou Xiang of Zhou , King of China 650s BC 651 BC 610s BC 619 BC Japan legendary Emperor Jimmu Jimmu , List of Emperors of Japan Emperor of Japan c. 650s BC 660 BC c. 580s BC 585 BC Lydia Ardys II , List of Kings of Lydia King of Lydia 670s BC 678 BC 620s BC 629 BC Europe Athens Unknown 663 BC 650s BC 659 BC Miltiades , Archon of Athens 659 BC 650s BC 658 BC Unknown 658 BC 640s BC 645 BC Corinth Cypselus , tyrant of Corinth 650s BC 657 BC 620s BC 627 BC Ireland legendary Macha Mong Ruad , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland 660s BC 661 BC 650s BC 654 BC Rechtaid R gderg , High King of Ireland 654 BC 630s BC 634 BC Macedonia ancient kingdom Macedonia Argaeus I of Macedon Argaeus I , List of kings of Macedon King of Macedonia 678 BC 630s BC 640 BC Ancient Rome Rome Tullus Hostilius , List of Roman Kings King of Rome 670s BC 673 BC 640s BC 642 BC Sparta Agiad Dyanasty Eurycrates , Kings of Sparta King of Sparta c. 660s BC 665 BC c.640 BC Alba Longa Gaius Cluilius , Latin kings of Alba Longa King of Alba Longa 710s BC 717 BC ? 660s BC ca. 660 BC Mettius Fufetius , Latin kings of Alba Longa King of Alba Longa 660s BC ca. 660 BC 650s BC ca. 653 BC Roman Occupation, 650s BC ca. 653 BC 476 AD Middle East Assyria Ashurbanipal , Kings of Assyria King of Assyria 660s BC 669 BC 627 BC Babylon Tenth Dynasty Shamash shum ukin , Kings of Babylon King of Babylon 660s BC 668 BC 640s BC 648 BC Kingdom of Judah Manasse ... more details
List of state leaders in 650s BC 650s BC state leaders 640s BC Events of 640s BC List of state leaders in 630s BC 630s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa Egypt Twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt Twenty sixth Dynasty Psamtik I , List of pharaohs Pharaoh of Egypt 660s BC 664 BC 600s BC 610 BC Asia China Zhou Dynasty King Xiang of Zhou Xiang of Zhou , List of Chinese monarchs King of China 650s BC 651 BC 610s BC 619 BC Japan legendary Emperor Jimmu Jimmu , List of Emperors of Japan Emperor of Japan c. 650s BC 660 BC c. 580s BC 585 BC Lydia Ardys II , List of Kings of Lydia King of Lydia 670s BC 678 BC 620s BC 629 BC Europe Athens Unknown 650s BC 650 BC 640s BC 645 BC Dropides , Archon of Athens 645 BC 640s BC 644 BC Unknown 644 BC 640s BC 641 BC Corinth Cypselus , tyrant of Corinth 650s BC 657 BC 620s BC 627 BC Ireland legendary Rechtaid R gderg , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland 650s BC 654 BC 630s BC 634 BC Macedonia ancient kingdom Macedonia Argaeus I of Macedon Argaeus I , List of kings of Macedon King of Macedonia 678 BC 630s BC 640 BC Ancient Rome Rome Tullus Hostilius , List of Roman Kings King of Rome 670s BC 673 BC 640s BC 642 BC Ancus Marcius , King of Rome 642 BC 610s BC 617 BC Sparta Agiad Dyanasty Eurycrates , Kings of Sparta King of Sparta c. 660s BC 665 BC c.640 BC Middle East Assyria Ashurbanipal , Kings of Assyria King of Assyria 660s BC 669 BC 627 BC Babylon Tenth Dynasty Shamash shum ukin , Kings of Babylon King of Babylon 660s BC 668 BC 640s BC 648 BC Kandalanu , King of Babylon 648 BC 620s BC 627 BC Kingdom of Judah Manasseh of Judah Manasseh , King of Judah 680s BC 687 BC 642 BC Amon of Judah Amon , King of Judah 642 BC 640 BC Medes Median Empire Madius , King of Medes 650s BC 653 BC 620s BC 625 BC Persia Tammaritu , List of kings of Persia King of Persia 650s BC 652 BC 640s BC 649 BC , 640s BC 647 BC Indabibi 649 BC July 648 BC Humban Haltash III July 648 BC 645 BC Humban Nikash III 647 BC Umhuluma 647 BC Indattu Inshushin ... more details
List of state leaders in 640s BC 640s BC state leaders 630s BC Events of 630s BC List of state leaders in 620s BC 620s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa Cyrene, Libya Cyrene Battus I of Cyrene Battus I , List of Kings of Cyrene King of Cyrene c. 630s BC 632 BC c. 590s BC 600 BC Egypt Twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt Twenty sixth Dynasty Psamtik I , List of pharaohs Pharaoh of Egypt 660s BC 664 BC 600s BC 610 BC Asia China Zhou Dynasty King Xiang of Zhou Xiang of Zhou , List of Chinese monarchs King of China 650s BC 651 BC 610s BC 619 BC Japan legendary Emperor Jimmu Jimmu , List of Emperors of Japan Emperor of Japan c. 650s BC 660 BC c. 580s BC 585 BC Lydia Ardys II , List of Kings of Lydia King of Lydia 670s BC 678 BC 620s BC 629 BC Europe Athens Unknown 630s BC 640 BC 630s BC 639 BC Damasias , Archon of Athens 639 BC 630s BC 638 BC Unknown 638 BC 630s BC 634 BC Epaenetus 634 BC 630s BC 633 BC Unknown 633 BC 630s BC 632 BC Megacles 632 BC 630s BC 631 BC Unknown 631 BC Corinth Cypselus , tyrant of Corinth 650s BC 657 BC 620s BC 627 BC Ireland legendary Rechtaid R gderg , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland 650s BC 654 BC 634 BC gaine Mor , High King of Ireland 634 BC 590s BC 594 BC Macedonia ancient kingdom Macedonia Argaeus I of Macedon Argaeus I , List of kings of Macedon King of Macedonia 670s BC 678 BC 640 BC Philip I of Macedon Philip I , King of Macedonia 640 BC 609 600 BC 602 BC Ancient Rome Rome Ancus Marcius , List of Roman Kings King of Rome 640s BC 642 BC 610s BC 617 BC Sparta Agiad Dyanasty Eurycrates , Kings of Sparta King of Sparta c. 660s BC 665 BC c.640 BC Anaxander , King of Sparta c.640 BC 610s BC c.615 BC Middle East Assyria Ashurbanipal , Kings of Assyria King of Assyria 660s BC 669 BC 627 BC Babylon Tenth Dynasty Kandalanu , Kings of Babylon King of Babylon 640s BC 648 BC 620s BC 627 BC Kingdom of Judah Amon of Judah Amon , King of Judah 642 BC 640 BC Josiah , King of Judah 640 BC 609 600 BC 609 BC Medes Median Empire Ma ... more details
List of state leaders in 630s BC 630s BC state leaders 620s BC Events of 620s BC List of state leaders in 610s BC 610s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa Cyrene, Libya Cyrene Battus I of Cyrene Battus I , List of Kings of Cyrene King of Cyrene c. 630s BC 632 BC c. 590s BC 600 BC Egypt Twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt Twenty sixth Dynasty Psamtik I , List of pharaohs Pharaoh of Egypt 660s BC 664 BC 600s BC 610 BC Asia China Zhou Dynasty King Xiang of Zhou Xiang of Zhou , List of Chinese monarchs King of China 650s BC 651 BC 610s BC 619 BC Japan legendary Emperor Jimmu Jimmu , List of Emperors of Japan Emperor of Japan c. 650s BC 660 BC c. 580s BC 585 BC Lydia Ardys II , List of Kings of Lydia King of Lydia 670s BC 678 BC 620s BC 629 BC Sadyattes , King of Lydia 629 BC 610s BC 617 BC Europe Athens Unknown 620s BC 630 BC 620s BC 624 BC Aristaechmus , Archon of Athens 624 BC 620s BC 623 BC Unknown 623 BC 620s BC 621 BC Draco lawgiver Draco , Archon of Athens 621 BC 610s BC 620 BC Corinth Cypselus , tyrant of Corinth 650s BC 657 BC 620s BC 627 BC Periander , tyrant of Corinth 627 BC 580s BC 585 BC Ireland legendary gaine Mor , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland 630s BC 634 BC 590s BC 594 BC Macedonia ancient kingdom Macedonia Philip I of Macedon Philip I , List of kings of Macedon King of Macedonia 630s BC 640 BC 609 600 BC 602 BC Ancient Rome Rome Ancus Marcius , List of Roman Kings King of Rome 640s BC 642 BC 617 BC Sparta Agiad Dyanasty Anaxander , Kings of Sparta King of Sparta c.640 BC 610s BC c.615 BC Middle East Assyria Ashurbanipal , Kings of Assyria King of Assyria 660s BC 669 BC 627 BC Ashur etil ilani , King of Assyria ca. 630s BC 631 BC 627 BC Sin shar ishkun , King of Assyria ca. 627 610s BC 612 BC Sin shumu lishir , King of Assyria 620s BC 626 BC Babylon Tenth Dynasty Kandalanu , Kings of Babylon King of Babylon 640s BC 648 BC 620s BC 627 BC Sin shar ishkun , King of Babylon ca. 627 610s BC 620 BC Sin shumu lishir , King of Bablon 6 ... more details
List of state leaders in 600s BC 600s BC state leaders 590s BC Events of 590s BC List of state leaders in 580s BC 580s BC state leaders State leaders by year Africa Cyrene, Libya Cyrene Battus I of Cyrene Battus I , List of Kings of Cyrene King of Cyrene c. 630s BC 632 BC c. 590s BC 600 BC Arcesilaus I of Cyrene Arcesilaus I , King of Cyrene 600 BC 580s BC 583 BC Egypt Twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt Twenty sixth Dynasty Necho II , List of pharaohs Pharaoh of Egypt 609 600 BC 610 BC 590s BC 595 BC Psamtik II , Pharaoh of Egypt 595 BC 580s BC 589 BC Asia China Zhou Dynasty King Ding of Zhou Ding of Zhou , List of Chinese monarchs King of China 609 600 BC 606 BC 580s BC 586 BC Japan legendary Emperor Jimmu Jimmu , List of Emperors of Japan Emperor of Japan c. 650s BC 660 BC c. 580s BC 585 BC Lydia Alyattes II , List of Kings of Lydia King of Lydia 610s BC 617 BC 550s BC 560 BC Europe Athens Critias , Archon of Athens 600 BC 590s BC 599 BC Unknown 599 BC 590s BC 597 BC Cypselus , Archon of Athens 597 BC 590s BC 596 BC Telecles , Archon of Athens 596 BC 595 BC Philombrotus , Archon of Athens 595 BC 590s BC 594 BC Solon , Archon of Athens 594 BC 590s BC 593 BC Dropides , Archon of Athens 593 BC 590s BC 592 BC Eucrates , Archon of Athens 592 BC 590s BC 591 BC Simon , Archon of Athens 591 BC 580s BC 590 BC Corinth Periander , tyrant of Corinth 627 BC 585 BC Ireland legendary gaine Mor , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland 630s BC 634 BC 590s BC 594 BC Bodbchad , High King of Ireland 594 BC L egaire Lorc , High King of Ireland 594 BC 592 BC Cobthach C el Breg , High King of Ireland 592 BC 540s BC 542 BC Macedonia ancient kingdom Macedonia Aeropus I of Macedon Aeropus I , List of kings of Macedon King of Macedonia 609 600 BC 602 BC 570s BC 576 BC Ancient Rome Rome Lucius Tarquinius Priscus , King of Rome 610s BC 616 BC 570s BC 579 BC Sparta Agiad Dyanasty Eurycratides , Kings of Sparta King of Sparta c. 610s BC 615 BC c. 580s BC 590 BC Middle East Babylon Eleve ... more details
Chersias Ancient Greek polytonic of Orchomenus Boeotia Orchomenus fl. late 7th c. BCE was an Archaic Greece archaic Greek epic poet whose work is all but lost today. ref harvnb Robert 1877 pages 145 6 , argued that the verses quoted by Pausanias geographer Pausanias were the invention of Callippus of Corinth , but this view has not gained traction cf. harvnb West 2003 p 32 . ref Plutarch presents Chersias as an interlocutor in the Banquet of the Seven Sages of Greece Seven Sages , making him a contemporary of Periander and Chilon . ref Plut. Moralia http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A2008.01.0184 3Astephpage 3D156e 156e f . ref Chersias is also said to have been present when Periander s father Cypselus dedicated a treasury at Delphi . ref Plut. Moralia http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A2008.01.0184 3Astephpage 3D164a 164a . ref According to Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Chersias poetry had already fallen out of circulation by his day, but the geographer quotes the only extant fragment of his epic poetry, citing a speech delivered by Callippus of Corinth 5th c. BCE to the Orchomenians as the source ref Paus. http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0160 3Abook 3D9 3Achapter 3D38 3Asection 3D9 9.38.9 . ref style border 0px margin left 100px white space nowrap scope col width 400px scope col width 400px border 0 Valign top polytonic br polytonic . From Poseidon and much famed Mideia br Aspledon mythology Aspledon was born, a son in the wide wayed city. This fragment suggests that Chersias, like his apparent contemporary Asius of Samos , composed in the genre of genealogical epic best represented today by the fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women . ref harvnb West 2003 pages 31 2 . ref Pausanias goes on to relate that Chersias composed the epitaph which the Orchomenians inscribed upon the base of a ... more details
Ambracia , occasionally Ampracia lang el ancient modern , was an ancient Corinth, Greece Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece , on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos River Arachthos or Aratthus , in the midst of a fertile wooded plain. ref name OCD Citation last Hammond first Nicholas Geoffrey Lempri re author link N. G. L. Hammond contribution Ambracia year 1996 title Oxford Classical Dictionary editor1 last Hornblower editor1 first Simon editor1 link Simon Hornblower editor2 last Spawforth editor2 first Anthony editor2 link Anthony Spawforth edition 3rd place Oxford publisher Oxford University Press isbn 0 19 521693 8 ref File Map of ancient Epirus and environs.png right thumb 200px Ambracia in antiquity History It was founded between 650 and 625 BC by Gorgus , son of the Corinthian tyrant Cypselus , at which time its economy was based on farmlands, fishing, timber for shipbuilding, and the exportation of the produce of Epirus. ref name OCD After the expulsion of Gorgus s son Periander its government developed into a strong democracy. The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade , its consequent aversion to Corcyra as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota , which took place in 433 BC between the rebellous corinthian colony of Corcyra modern Corfu and Corinth . sfn Caspari 1911 Ambraciot politics featured many frontier disputes with the Amphilochians and Acarnanians . Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene 426 which crippled its resources. sfn Caspari 1911 In the 4th century BC it continued its traditional policy, but in 338 was besieged by Philip II of Macedon . With the assistance of Corinth and Athens, it escaped complete domination at Philip s hands, but was nevertheless forced to accept a Macedonian garrison. ref name OCD In 294 ... more details
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