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	PERIANDER - LoveToKnow Article on PERIANDER
		Periander, on being consulted by the tyrant Thrasybulus of Miletus as to the best device for maintaining himself in power, by way of reply led the messenger through a cornfield, and as he walked struck off the tallest and best-grown ears (a legend applied to Roman circumstances in Livy i.
		Periander further appears as a patron of literature, for it was by his invitation that the poet Anon came to Corinth to organize the dithyramb.
		Periander was reckoned one of the seven sages of Greece, and was the reputed author of a collection of maxims (Tiro6i~cai) in 2000 verses.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PERIANDER.htm (451 words)

	Periander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Periander was the second tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC.
		However, Periander was later considered the typical evil tyrant (for example, by Aristotle).
		Periander was included by most authors in the Seven Sages of Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Periander (232 words)

	PERIANDER OF CORINTH
		Periander was married to Melissa, daughter of Procles (tyrant of Epidaurus).
		Periander punished the Corkyreans for the death of his son, by killing 50 Corkyreans and sending 300 of their children to Lydia to become eunuchs, but at the island of Samos the people gave them sanctuary in the temple of Artemis.
		Periander died in 586 BC and was succeeded by Psammetichus.
	www.ancientworlds.net /5121 (393 words)

	Periander -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Periander was the second (A cruel and oppressive dictator) tyrant of (Click link for more info and facts about Corinth, Greece) Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC.
		However, Periander was later considered the typical evil tyrant (for example, by (One of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)) Aristotle).
		Periander was included by most authors in the (Click link for more info and facts about Seven Sages of Greece) Seven Sages of Greece.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Periander.htm (273 words)

	History of Ancient Corinth/Korinth
		Periander put to death his wife Melissa, daughter of the tyrant of Epidauros Procles, by listening to slanders of his concubines, which he later burn them, when he discovered the truth.
		Periander to avenge his son, killed 50 Corkyreans and sent 300 of their children to Lydia to become eunuchs, but at the island of Samos the people gave them sanctuary in the temple of Artemis.
		From all these, we see that though Periander was a very intelligent man, he was not at all a wise one and Plato was correct not to consider him, as one of them.
	www.sikyon.com /Korinth/history_eg.html (1866 words)

	The Seven Sages, Greek Mythology Link
		Periander, son of Cypselus 2, son of Eetion 4, was tyrant of Corinth.
		Periander's wife was Melissa, daughter of Procles 3, the tyrant of Epidaurus.
		Periander, who apparently had not the ability 'to control anger', as wise men usually recommend, let himself be controlled by it instead, and killed his wife either by throwing a footstool at her, or by kicking her when she was pregnant.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/SevenSages.html (10063 words)

	Periander of Corinth
		Periander (627 – 585) BC, son of Cypselus ruler of Corinth for more than 40 years.
		Periander tried to bring him back but Lykophron only accepted to rule Corinth, when his father promised him, that he would come to stay in Corkyra, in his place.
		Periander's revenge was to kill 50 Corkyreans and sent 300 of their children to Lydia to become eunuchs, but at the island of Samos the people gave them sanctuary in the temple of Artemis.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Live/Writer/Periander.htm (388 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 190 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The letters, which we find in Diogenes Laertius, from Periander to his brother sages, inviting them to Corinth, and from Thrasybulus to Periander, explaining the act of cutting off the tops of the corn, are obvious and clumsy fabrications.
		He was succeeded by a relative, Psammetichus, son of Gordias,— names which have been thought to intimate the maintenance by the Cypselidae of hospitable relations with the princes of Egypt and Phrygia.
		Periander was deposed by the people, probably after the death of the Corinthian tyrant (b.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2524.html (765 words)

	Periander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Periander succeded his father, Cypselos as dictator of Corinth.
		Periander is not remembered as a particularly kind man. Though he is known to have developed many freindly relations with neighboring kings, he in fact is also known to have killed his own wife and executed anyone who was thought to be in opposition of him.
		Though this quote, "Silence is a good thing," is one that many hear frequently in their daily lives, it is not common knowledge that it does, in fact, come from Periander.
	www.vroma.org /~abarker/indexaneka.html (179 words)

	Periander, Greece, ancient history
		Periander was a very wise ruler, and was to be considered as one of the seven sages of Greece.
		Periander was a friend of Athens, and also had strong ties with Miletus and Lydia.
		Periander died at an old age, and was succeeded by his son Psammetichus, who only ruled for three years, and then was overthrown by the oligarchs.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/periander.htm (298 words)

	Periander biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was energetic as a warrior and distinguished as a patron of poetry and music and is by some reckoned as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece; many wise maxims were ascribed to him.
		Later, when Periander, wishing to see his son, undertook to visit Corcyra, the Corcyreans, terrified at the prospect and hoping to avert the visit, put Lycophron to death.
		Periander, as tyrant, had under his sway, besides Corinth, also Corcyra, Ambracia, Leucas, and Anactorium.
	www.dromo.info /perianderbio.htm (160 words)

	Arion 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		Arion 2, who lived in Corinth when this city was ruled by King Periander (625-585 BC), was the best citharist or lyre-player of his time, coming originally from Methymna, a city in the island of Lesbos.
		From Taenarum the musician returned to Corinth, but King Periander, not knowing what he was to believe, or rather suspecting Arion 2 to be an impostor, kept him in confinement while waiting for the sailors.
		In the meantime, Periander ordered the crew to be kept under guard and instructed Arion 2 to hide in the monument wearing the same clothes he had when he threw himself into the sea.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Arion2.html (1513 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story is difficult to reconstruct from the fragments, but it is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the incident was quite recent at the time of the conversation.
		The object of Periander's murderous plot was not his father Cypselus, as some interpreters have supposed, but members of the Bacchiad clan, descendants of the old ruling elite of Corinth.
		He connects the statement of the papyrus that Solon was in Ionia at the time of Pisistratus's first tyranny with the tradition that Solon absented himself from Athens after instituting his reforms; and he accepts the argument that Solon's reforms should be dated to the 570's, some twenty years after his archonship.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.07.11.html (641 words)

	Periander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Periander tuvo éxito a su padre en 627 A.C..
		Periander intentó más adelante reconciliar con Lycophron, pero Lycophron rechazado para volver a menos que Periander abdicara.
		Periander fue incluido por la mayoría de los autores en los siete Sages de Grecia.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pe/Periander.htm (251 words)

	Geographia: Peloponnesus
		In the 7th century BC, Periander, son of Cypselus, succeeded his father as tyrant of Corinth.
		It was during Periander's reign that Corinth enjoyed the greatest height, commercially and culturally, but he was a ruthless despot.
		Periander was also known as the patron of the poet and singer, Arion of Lesbos.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/peloponnesus.html (3547 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 189 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But, whatever might have been their dispositions towards him, he contrived with great ability to keep rebellion in check, protecting his person by a body-guard of mercenaries, and directing, apparently, his whole policy, domestic as well as foreign, to the maintenance of his power.
		To the same end we may refer also his expulsion of many of the people from the city, as we are told by Diogenes Laertius, on the authority of Ephorus and Aristotle, by the latter of whom such a measure is indeed mentioned in the Politics (v.
		The story of his stripping the Corinthian women of their ornaments is variously given in Herodotus and in Diogenes Laertius from Ephorus ; and it seems doubtful whether we should regard it as one of his measures for diminishing the resources of powerful families, or as a perverted account of a sumptuary law.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2523.html (697 words)

	History of Corinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Periander's court was renown and Corinth became a cultural center because the tyrant supported writers, such as Arion and Aesop, and architects who were busy helping to contruct various buildings in the city and popularizing the Doric order.
		Lykophron, who had been exiled to Corcyra, was killed by the Corcyrians he avenged his son by killing Corcyreans and sent 300 of their childre to Lydia to become eunuchs: the children, however, were saved from that fate when the people of Samos gave them sanctuary in the temple of Artemis.
		Periander was succeeded by his nephew Psammethichus as his own sons weere all dead or estranged from him.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/history1.htm (1739 words)

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		Periander tried to dissuade him, but, finding him resolved, he assisted him in his preparations, and on his departure exacted from him a promise that he would return to Corinth.
		Periander was overjoyed to see him once more; and when he marveled at the strange costume in which Arion had traveled, Arion related the whole story.
		Periander listened attentively, and, when it was finished, remarked gravely, "Are you then so little satisfied with your victories over the musicians, Arion, that you have determined to be king of story-tellers also?" "Does your majesty intend to throw doubt on my story?" asked Arion.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/4/7/5/14752/14752-8.txt (20462 words)

	Periander, Presocratics, and Lyric poets
		Periander built a special road, the diolkos, a stone track across that narrow isthmus at Corinth, which allowed ships to be dragged across the isthmus much more quickly than they had been in the past.
		Periander charged for the use of the diolkos, and his government collected a good deal of tax from this tax.
		His nephew succeeded him but was killed within a year; the Corinthians hated Periander and his family so much that they razed their houses to the ground and had their bones cast out of the borders of Corinth.
	www.siu.edu /cwis/departments/cola/dfll/public_html/classics/Johnson/GreekCiv/Lectures/2002/Tyrant.htm (3490 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Darius the Great by Jacob Abbott
		Some were banished, some were slain, and some were deprived of their influence, and so reduced to the ordinary level, by the confiscation of their property, the lives and fortunes of all the citizens of the state being wholly in the despot's hands.
		Periander, having occasion to consult an oracle in order to find the means of recovering a certain article of value which was lost, sent to this place to call up and consult the ghost of Melissa.
		The rude violence which Periander resorted to in this case seems not to have been dictated by any particular desire to insult or injure the women of Corinth, but was resorted to simply as the easiest and most convenient way of obtaining what he needed.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=darius&story=greece (4967 words)

	Arion Homework Page
		The crew told King Periander that Arion had enjoyed himself so much at Tarentum, what with winning the musical contest and all, and the people there had so fallen for his charms and talents, that he had decide to take up residence there.
		King Periander ordered it to be buried, and a monument to be raised to honor the friendly dolphin.
		As for the pirate ship, it is claimed that it was brought back to Corinth by a storm sent by Poseidon, and when the sailors were asked about Arion, they replied that he had died suddenly and that they had buried him with all the honor befitting such a renowned bard.
	www.thanasis.com /arion.htm (984 words)

	Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Periander, translated by C.D. Yonge
		BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. PERIANDER was a Corinthian, the son of Cypselus, of the family of the Heraclidae.
		At a subsequent period he in a rage either kicked or threw his wife down stairs when she was pregnant, and so killed her, being wrought upon by the false accusations of his concubines, whom he afterwards burnt alive.
		But Sotion, and Heraclides, and Pamphila, in the fifth book of her Commentaries, says that there were two Perianders; the one a tyrant, and the other a wise man, and a native of Ambracia.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlperiander.htm (913 words)

	PLUTARCH, OF ATHENS - LoveToKnow Article on PLUTARCH, OF ATHENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men (considered spurious by some) is a longer treatise, one of the several Symposia or imaginary conversations that have come down to us.
		It is supposed to be given by Periander in the public banqueting-room (kriarhpiov) near the harbour of Corinth (Lechaeum) on the occasion of a sacrifice to Aphrodite.
		Like Platos Symposium this treatise takes the form of a narrative of what was said and done, the narrator being one Diodes, a friend of Periander, who professes to give Nicarchus a correct account as having been present.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PL/PLUTARCH_OF_ATHENS.htm (3011 words)

	bodewes shipyards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before it was built, ships sailing between the Aegean and Adriatic had to circumnavigate the Peloponnese adding about 185 nautical miles to their journey.
		The first to decide to dig the Corinth Canal was Periander, the tyrant of Corinth (602 BCE).
		Such a giant project was above the technical capabilities of ancient times so Periander carried out another great project, the diolkós, a stone road, on which the ships were transferred on wheeled platforms from one sea to the other.
	www.bodewesshipyards.nl /newsasp/news1.asp?ID=54 (390 words)

	XXV. a. Arion. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		was a famous musician, and dwelt in the court of Periander, king of Corinth, with whom he was a great favorite.
		He told his wish to Periander, who besought him like a brother to give up the thought.
		He entered the hospitable halls, and was soon clasped in the embrace of Periander.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/181/251.html (1335 words)

	Articles - Corinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Periander also founded Apollonia (modern day Fier, Albania) and Potidaea (in Chalcidice).
		Periander was one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
		The era of the Cypselids, ending with Periander's nephew Psammetichus, named after the hellenophile Egyptian Pharaoh Psammetichus I (see above), was the golden age of the city of Corinth.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Corinth?mySession=bffefd3ca75c64b3fa67a80ad5051a63 (1966 words)

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