- The
Bacchiadae (Ancient Gr****: Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai), a
tightly knit
Doric clan, were the
ruling family of
ancient Corinth in the
eighth and
seventh centuries...
- dynasty,
usurped power,
became tyrant and
expelled the
Bacchiadae.
According to
Herodotus the
Bacchiadae heard two
prophecies from the
Delphic oracle that...
- Bellerophon.
Corinth had been a
backwater in
Greece in the 8th
century BC. The
Bacchiadae (Ancient Gr****: Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai) were a tightly-knit
Doric clan and...
-
traditionally ascribed to
Eumelus of Corinth, a semi-legendary bard of the
Bacchiadae ruling family in
archaic Corinth, who was
treasured as the traditional...
- monarchy.
Special prestige attached to the
Lyncestae whose royal family, the
Bacchiadae claimed descent from Heracles, and to the Macedonians,
whose royal family...
- (Gr****: Εὔμελος ὁ Κορίνθιος
Eumelos ho Korinthios), of the clan of the
Bacchiadae, is a semi-legendary
early Gr**** poet to whom were
attributed several...
-
Heraclid descent, such as Lysander. At
Corinth the
Heraclids ruled as the
Bacchiadae dynasty before the
aristocratic revolution,
which brought a
Bacchiad aristocracy...
- Arrhabaeus, the king of Lynkestis, who
claimed Corinthian aristocratic (
Bacchiadae) origin. He was the
maternal grandfather of
Eurydice I of Macedon, mother...
- not in Crete, but in Lydia,
which should signify on
Mount Sipylus. The
Bacchiadae were
exiled by the
tyrant Cypselus about 657 BC. M.L. West, "'Eumelos':...
-
ancient Gr****
lawmaker at Thebes.
Philolaus belonged by
birth to the
Bacchiadae family of
Corinth who
arose as
Nomothete (lawmaker) at Thebes. He became...
