c. 657 BCE
Cypselus becomes tyrant of Corinth
Around 657 BCE Cypselus, the army's polemarch, expels the ruling Bacchiad clan and rules Corinth as tyrant for thirty years. His son Periander succeeds him in 627.
c. 657 BCE
Around 657 BCE Cypselus, the army's polemarch, expels the ruling Bacchiad clan and rules Corinth as tyrant for thirty years. His son Periander succeeds him in 627.