Meaning of Kylonian | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of Cylonian.

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“There still remained, if not a considerable Kylonian party, at least a large body of persons who resented the way in which the Kylonians bad been put⟳ to death, and who became in consequence bitter enemies of Megaklês the archon, and of the great family of the Alkmæônidæ, to which he belonged.”

“The same process⟳ of evolution perhaps is discernible in two other signs of territorial awareness in this general period: the boundaries of Attika sworn to be guarded by the ephēboi and the decision of the Athenians to cast⟳ the bodies of deceased Alkmeonids, the family polluted by their role in the murder⟳ of the Kylonians, “beyond the borders” of Attika (hyper tous horous: Plut. Sol. 12.3, cf. Ath. Pol. 1).”

“According to Plutarch, after the killing (and until, it seems, the exile of the Alkmaionids and the religious reforms of Epimenides) there occurred a prolonged civil and religious crisis: the Kylonian pollution agitated the city-state for a long time, the constant conflict between the surviving Kylonians and the Alkmaionids divided the people (demos), and the city-state was visited with superstitious fears, strange appearances, and pollutions.”

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