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  Cypselus
Cypselus (or Kypselos) (Greek: Κύψελος) was the first tyrant of Corinth, Greece, in the 7th century BC.
Cypselus, the son of Eëtion and a disfigured woman named Labda, who was a member of the Bacchiad family, the ruling dynasty, usurped the power in archaic matriarchal right of his mother, became tyrant and expelled the Bacchidae.
At the time, around 657 BC, Cypselus was polemarch, the archon in charge of the military, and he used his influence with the soldiery to expel the king.
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She bore him two sons, Cypselus and Lycophron, and was passionately beloved by him; but he is said to have killed her by a blow during her pregnancy, having been roused to a fit of anger by a false accusation brought against her.
The mother of Cypselus belonged to the house of the Bacchiadae, that is, to the Doric nobility of Corinth.
Cypselus ruled at Corinth for a period of thirty years, the beginning of which is placed by some in B. 658, and by others in 655.
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Cypselus (or Kypselos) was the first tyrant of Corinth Greece in the 7th century BC With increased wealth and more complicated trade and social structures Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary Corinth the richest archaic polis led the way.
At the time around 657 BC Cypselus was polemarch the archon in charge of the military and used his influence with the soldiery to the king.
He ruled for thirty years and was as tyrant by his son Periander in 627 BC The treasury Cypselus built at Delphi apparently still standing in the time of
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 Cypselus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cypselus (or Kypselos) was the first tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC.
Atthe time, around 657 BC, Cypselus was polemarch, the archon in charge of the military, and he used hisinfluence with the soldiery to expel the king.
The treasury Cypselus built at Delphi was apparently still standing in the timeof Herodotus.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tyranny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the original Greek meaning "tyrant" carried no ethical censure, a tyrant was anyone who overturned the established government of a city-state, usually through the use of popular support, to establish himself as dictator, or the heir of such a person.
Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC, and managed to bequeath his position to his son, Periander.
In Athens, the title was first given to Pisistratus of Athens in 560 BC, followed by his sons, and with the subsequent growth of Athenian democracy, the title "Tyrant" took on its familiar censurious connotations.
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 Cypselus - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When he was grown up, Cypselus, encouraged by an oracle, drove out the Bacchiadae, and made himself master of Corinth.
It is stated that he first ingratiated himself with the people by his liberal conduct when Polemarch, in which capacity he had to exact the fines imposed by the law.
At Delphi he built a treasure-house for Corinthian votive offerings; at Olympia he dedicated a colossal statue of Zeus and the famous "chest of Cypselus," supposed to be identical with the chest of the legend, of which Pausanias (v.
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 Cypselus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cypselus
He confiscated and redistributed the lands of the nobles, imposed a tithe on revenue and possibly struck the first Corinthian coinage.
Cypselus was the son of a non-Bacchiad father and a Bacchiad mother (the Bacchiads were the ruling aristocratic clan).
Pansetius at Leontium, Cypselus at Corinth, Pisistratus at Athens, Dionysius at Syracuse, and others, acquired theirs by having been demagogues.
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 Tyranny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the original Greek meaning "tyrant" carried no ethical censure, a tyrant was anyone who overturned the establishedgovernment of a city-state, usually through the use of popular support, toestablish himself as dictator, or the heir of such a person.
Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth in the7th century, and managed to bequeath his position to his son, Periander.
InAthens, the title was first given to Pisistratus of Athens in 560 BC, followed by his sons, and with the subsequentgrowth of Athenian democracy, the title "Tyrant" took on its familiar censurious connotations.
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 cypselus, or micropus, apus - Definitions from Dictionary.com
In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
Note: The common European swift (Cypselus, or Micropus, apus) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams.
The European Alpine swift (Cypselus melba) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast.
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 Arcadia, Greek Mythology Link.
Cypselus 1 succeeded his father Aepytus 4 as king of the Arcadians, and was founder of a place called Basilis.
It is during his reign that the HERACLIDES effected their return invading the Peloponnesus, not as it had before been attempted, that is, across the Corinthian Isthmus, but by sea.
Cypselus 1 made an agreement with the invaders, marrying his daughter Merope 2 to the Heraclid Cresphontes, and in this way he had nothing to fear.
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Cypselus was a tyrant at Corinth from c.
In the case of Cypselus, his rise to power was influenced by the predictions of the oracle at Delphi, and his usurpation of an oligarchic regime at Corinth reflected the growing prevalence of tyrannies in the 7th century Greek world.
The nature of Cypselus' dedications at Olympia and Delphi reflect both the growing wealth and power of the city-state of Corinth and Cypselus' desire to be recognized and remembered by the rest of the Greek world.
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 Cypselus
Aletes himself and his descendants reigned for five generations to Bacchis, the son of Prumnis, and, named after him, the Bacchidae reigned for five more generations to Telestes, the son of Aristodemus.
Telestes was killed in hate by Arieus and Perantas, and there were no more kings, but Prytanes (Presidents) taken from the Bacchidae and ruling for one year, until Cypselus, the son of Eetion, became tyrant and expelled the Bacchidae.
Cypselus was a descendant of Melas, the son of Antasus.
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 palm - definition by dict.die.net
Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (El[ae]is Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles.
Palm swift (Zo["o]l.), a small swift (Cypselus Batassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India.
Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm.
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 lion.chapter1
She was one of the heavy Corinthian traders, which became rapidly the workhorses of the waters.
Back at the lodgings the news had spread like wildfire that Cypselus, the king of Corinth, had landed and was in conference with the high priest of the Apollo temple.
Cypselus is more a friend than an employer so I might get you something.
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 Cypselus - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Labda then hid the baby in a chest, and when the men had composed themselves and returned to kill it, they could not find it.
The baby was named ''Cypselus'' after the Greek word for "chest," ''cypsele''.
At the time, around 657_BC, Cypselus was polemarch, the archon in charge of the military, and he used his influence to expel the king.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Documents of The Rise of Hellenic Tyranny, c. 650-550 BCE
The government at Corinth was once an oligarchy, and this group of men, called the Bacchiadae, held sway in the city, marrying and giving in marriage among themselves....Eventually, Cypselus, the son of Aetion, [one of the Bacchiadae] became master of Corinth.
Having thus got the tyranny, he showed himself a harsh ruler---many of the Corinthians he drove into banishment, many he deprived of his fortune, and a still greater number of their lives.
His reign lasted thirty years, and was prosperous to its close; insomuch that he left the government to Periander, his son....Where Cypselus had spared any, and had neither put them to death nor banished them, Periander complete what his father had left unfinished.
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 c. Sparta and the Peloponnese. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was called “the city of the blind,” because the settlers missed a better site at Byzantium on the European shore.
Cypselus (657–625) overthrew the Bacchiad oligarchy and made himself tyrant of Corinth.
Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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 Corinth
In 657 B. C., the oligarchy of the Bacchiadæ was replaced by one of the first tyrannies in Greece, that of Cypselus, himself a Bacchiadæ by his mother, but not by his father (Herodotus' Histories, V, 92b1-92e1).
Cypselus rid Corinth of the Bacchiadæ, confiscated their properties, and stayed in power for thirty years.
In 627 B. C., he was succeeded by his son Periander, who left a repute of even greater cruelty (Herodotus' Histories, V, 92f1-92g4), though he is sometimes counted among the Seven Wise Men of Greece (for instance by Diogenes Lærtius, Lives, I, 13, who includes his life in that of the sages, Lives, I, 94-100,
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 Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Schmidlin is in full command of his material, and the result: a finely woven tale that transcends his primary sources, notably Herodotus, and allows the reader a real, and very rare feel for what it was like to live in the ancient world of that time and place.
A coming of age novel at the same time "The Lion of the New Dawn" takes young Cypselus of Corinth from boyhood to the throne, and what I found so appealing throughout was the finely crafted character of Cypselus himself: a thoroughly likable young man, Cypselus is honest, authentic, duty-bound, but absolutely believable, refreshing.
Schmidlin also spins a very fast moving, tightly woven plot that combines aspects of classic story telling &endash; doublets, reversals &endash; with modern elements of suspense and psychological intrigue.
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According to Pausanias, who reasons on the basis of the evidence of the mythological stories represented on the chest dedicated by Cypselus at Olympia, the family of Cypselus originally came from Gonussa, above Sicyon; Paus.
When his father, Eetion, sought the advice of the oracle at Delphi on how he might overcome his childlessness, the propitious answer given to him corresponded to an ominous oracle which had been delivered to the Bacchiadae, the family then ruling Corinth.
Because he was delivered from his enemies in this way, the boy was named after the chest, i.e., "cypselus." When he grew older, he was prompted by the oracle at Delphi to seize power of the city of Corinth from the Bacchiadae.
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 Arion of Molyvos
He was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb which he afterwards taught at Corinth (Herodotus History).
This Periander, who apprised Thrasybulus of the oracle, was son of Cypselus, and tyrant of Corinth.
In his time a very wonderful thing is said to have happened.
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 The Chimney Swallow, or American Swift
It is unknown in Newfoundland and Labrador; nor was it until the 29th of May that I saw some at Eastport in Maine, where a few breed.
CHIMNEY SWALLOW or AMERICAN SWIFT, Cypselus pelasgius, Aud.
Brownish-fl, lighter on the rump, with a slight greenish gloss on the head and back; throat greyish-white, lower parts greyish-brown, tinged with green; loral space fl, and a greyish-white line over the eye.
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 A Treatise on Government by Aristotle: Part 5 Chapter 12 (continued) - The Literature Page
They say also, that Pisistratus submitted to be summoned into the court of the Areopagites.
The second that we shall mention is the tyranny of the Cypselidse, at Corinth, which continued seventy-seven years and six months; for Cypselus was tyrant there thirty years, Periander forty-four, and Psammetichus, the son of Georgias, three years; the reason for which was, that Cypselus was a popular man, and governed without guards.
Periander indeed ruled like a tyrant, but then he was an able general.
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 CYPSELUS - Definition
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 Just Gotta Dance
All this went on throughout their stay in Sicyon, and all the time he entertained them handsomely.
For one reason or another it was the two Athenians who impressed Cleisthenes most favourably, and of the two Tisander's son Hippocleides came to be preferred, not only for his manly virtues but also because he was related some generations back to the family of Cypselus of Corinth.
At last the day came which had been fixed for the betrothal, and Cleisthenes had to declare his choice.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Etruria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
They were followed by the Etruscans who may have evolved from them.
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The Po (Latin: Padus) is a river that flows 652 kilometers eastward across northern Italy, from Mount Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.
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 Greek Chronology: 8th and 7th Cents.
Samos seems to have invaded or raided Aegina, which was a natural enemy of Corinth.
650, the Cypselids [Cypselus and Peridander] were later allied with Miletus) Discussed by the historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
See A.R. Burn, The Lyric Age of Greece.
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 Die magische 250 km/h-Grenze soll fallen
Bei den Mercedes-Modellen CL und SL 65 (612 PS, 300 km/h) von Haustuner AMG wird der Begrenzer dem Magazin zufolge abgeschaltet, wenn es der Kunde wünscht.
Der Kunde muss allerdings dafür bei AMG vorfahren, bestätigt Sprecher Cypselus von Frankenberg, der bei DaimlerChrysler für die AMG-Baureihen zuständig ist, ausgeliefert wird das Fahrzeug bei Mercedes mit einer Begrenzung von 250 km/h.
Im Übrigen sei die Aufhebung der Tempobegrenzung bei AMG-Fahrzeugen nichts neues.
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