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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt:...been part cause and part result of the fall of Pheidon and the breaking up again of the lot of Temenos. Such a suggestion harmonizes well with the friendship that existed between the Corinthian and Sicyon tyrants3. There are however chronological difficulties in this interpretation of the Pheidon Archias story. In the story (i) the fall of the Bacchiads is made contemporary with the foundation of Syracuse, i.e. it must presumably be dated about 734 B.c.4; (ii) Pheidon is put Proetus, king of Argos. Even after Bellerophon had migrated to Lycia, the Corinthians are known to have been still subject to the lords of Argos orMycenae. Again, in the army which attacked Troy, the Corinthian contingent was not commanded by a general of its own, but was brigaded with the Mycenaean and other troops commanded by Agamemnon." 1 Apollodorus 11. 8. 4. 2 Plut. Amat. Narr. B Moral. 772); Schol. ap. Rhod. Arg. 1v. 1212; see also Diod. V111. 10; Alex. Aetol. Anth. Lyr. 1. 208; Max. Tyr. (ed. Teubner), Xv111.: cp. Wilisch, Jabrb. Class. Phil. 1876, pp. 586 f. 3 Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, regarded with particular favour one of his daughter's suitors, "because he was related by descent to the Cypselids of Corinth," Hdt. v1. 128 (quoted byGrotein this co1jnexion). For friendship between Corinth and Sicyon at this time, see perhaps also Nic. Dam. F.H.G. 1n. p. 395; cp. Wilisch, Goett. Gel. Anz. 1880, 11. p. 1195. 4 Thuc. v1. 3, 4; Thucydides must be preferred to Strabo v1. 269, 267, who says the first Greek cities in Sicily included Syracuse, and were founded in the tenth generation after the Trojan wars (i.e. about 800 B.C., E. Meyer, Ges. d. Ait. 11. sect. 302 n.). some time before this event, his contemporary Habron being grandfather of...