The Greek Tyrannies: c. 650 - 510 BC
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Orthagoras of Sicyon
A tyranny lasting an unprecedented 100 years was established at Sicyon by Orthagoras, who was reputed to be the son of a cook, which lasted from c. 650 to c. 550 BC. One of his successors was Cleisthenes (c. 600 - 570 BC) who adopted deliberately ethnic policies that were also hostile to Argos. Firstly, he tried to abolish the cult of the Argive hero Adrastus, but was prevented from doing this by the Delphic Oracle; then he set up a rival cult of Melanippus. Following that he renamed the tribes giving the Dorian tribes insulting names, such as "pig men". Thus it appears that Cleisthenese did everything he could to identify himself as the leader of the non-Dorians in Sicyon. The Spartans deposed him around the middle of the C6th BC, but they were not able to abolish the names of the Dorian tribes that he had created for another sixty years.
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Contents of
The Greek Tyrannies: c. 650 - 510 BC
1 The Period of Greek Tyrannies
2 Pheidon of Argos.
3 Cypselus of Corinth
4 Orthagoras of Sicyon
5 Asia Minor and Greek tryannies
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