Meaning of Kylon | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of Cylon.

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“We may however follow the course of ideas under which Solon was induced to write this sentence on his tables, and we may trace the influence of similar ideas in later Attic institutions. It is obvious that his denunciation is confined to that special case in which a sedition has already broken out: we must suppose that Kylon has seized the Acropolis, or that Peisistratus, Megaklês, and Lycurgus, are in arms at the head of their partisans.”

“Initial indications appear in the story surrounding “the first certain event of Athenian history”—the attempted coup d’état of the nobleman Kylon. In about 630 Kylon, a recent Olympic victor and powerful aristocrat, stormed the Athenian Akropolis with the aim of making himself tyrant.”

“What we can say is that the transition from Kylon to Epimenides has in the historical tradition been shaped by the same imaginative articulation that produced the Orestes myth.”

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