Periander

Family: Corinthian · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 23

Periander, a Corinthian tyrant and son of Cypselus, is described in Book 2, Chapter 28 as married to Melissa. In the same chapter, Proclees, Melissa’s father and king at Epidaurus, is identified as Periander’s father-in-law and king at Corinth.

Relationship record

Life events

• Melissa is married to Periander, the son of Cypselus.(Book 2 · Chapter 28)
  • With: Melissa
  • “the sepulchre of Melissa, who was the wife of Periander the son of Cypselus”

Book 1 · Chapter 23

• parent: Cypselus “Periander the son of Cypselus”

Book 2 · Chapter 28

• married with Melissa “And not far from the city is the sepulchre of Melissa, who was the wife of Periander the son of Cypselus, and the sepulchre of Proclees the father of Melissa.”
• parent: Cypselus “And not far from the city is the sepulchre of Melissa, who was the wife of Periander the son of Cypselus, and the sepulchre of Proclees the father of Melissa.”
• with Proclees (Proclees was Periander's father-in-law.) “And he was king at Epidaurus, as his son in law Periander was at Corinth.”

Book 10 · Chapter 24

• parent: Cypselus “the seventh Plato (the son of Aristo) makes Myson of Chenæ, a village on Mount Œta, instead of Periander the son of Cypselus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.