Cylon

Cylon of Athens in Wikipedia

Cylon (also spelled Kylon or Kulon from Κύλων) was an Athenian associated with the first reliably dated event in Athenian history, the Cylonian affair. Cylon, one of the Athenian nobles and a previous victor of the Olympic Games, attempted a coup in 632 BC with support from Megara, where his father-in-law, Theagenes was tyrant. The oracle at Delph...

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Cylon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κύλων). An Athenian of noble family who formed the plan of making himself tyrant of Athens (B.C. 612). At the time of the Olympic Games, he seized the Acropolis, where he was soon after closely besieged by the archons. Being at last destitute of food, he and his followers capitulated, after receiving a promise from the archon Megacles, one of the ...

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