CLASS NOTES ON GREEK TYRANNY

 

Jacoby, Die Fragmente der Griechische Historiker

 

FGrH

 

Muller, FHG

 

Board of elected magistrates

Council of Elders (all ex-magistrates)

Assembly of Warriors

GREECE

 

Bacchiads – Syracuse 735 BC

Cypselids of Corinth 650-620s BC

Cypselus and Periander

 

Cleisthenes of Sikyon, 600-575

Amphyctionic League , Agariste = Megacles, Cleisthenes of Athens, 510-500, Pericles.

 

Polycrates of Samos 532-521 BC -  Thalassocracy

 

Others mentioned in Herodotus:

Theagenes of Megara, Lygdamus of Naxos, Histaeus of Miletus

 

Peisistratus of Athens, Peisistratids 565-510 BC

 

Cypselids of Corinth 650-620s BC, Cypselus, Periander, Bacchiads, Corinth founded Syracuse in 734 BC

 

Corinthian fine ware, orientalizing style of vase painting, diolkos (ship drag way across the isthmus), first Doric Temple of Apollo, Pirene fountain.

 

Cleisthenes of Sikyon, c. 600-575 BC Orthagorids, Delphic Amphyctionic League; marriage of Agariste = Megacles of Athens, their child, named after Cleisthenes of Sicyon, became Cleisthenes of Athens

 

Polycrates of Samos, 532/1-525 BC, thalassocracy