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Cynisca in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κυνίσκα). A daughter of Archidamus, king of Sparta, who was the first woman that ever turned her attention to the training of steeds, and the first that obtained a prize at the Olympic Games (Pausan. iii. 8)....

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Cypselus in Wikipedia

Cypselus (or Kypselos) (in Greek, Κύψελος) was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings; Corinth, the richest archaic polis, led the way.[1] Like the signori of late medieval an...

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Cypselus in Wikipedia

Cypselus (or Kypselos) (in Greek, Κύψελος) was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings; Corinth, the richest archaic polis, led the way.[1] Like the signori of late medieval an...

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Cypsĕlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κύψελος). A tyrant of Corinth, B.C. 655-625, so named because when a child he was concealed from the Bacchiadae (the Doric nobility of Corinth) by his mother in a chest (κυψέλη). He was succeeded in the tyranny by his son Periander....

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Cypsĕlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κύψελος). A tyrant of Corinth, B.C. 655-625, so named because when a child he was concealed from the Bacchiadae (the Doric nobility of Corinth) by his mother in a chest (κυψέλη). He was succeeded in the tyranny by his son Periander....

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