biography
pronunciation:
[sipselus]
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| lived:
| (c.655–625 BC)
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| biography:
| Tyrant of Corinth, and one of the earliest in a series of self-made rulers who arose in many Greek cities in the 7th-c and 6th-c BC. He seized power against the narrow and exclusive oligarchy of the Bacchiads who had ruled Corinth since the 8th-c BC, and founded the Cypselid dynasty. |
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