Cylon

Family: Athenian · Role: Athenian who attempted to seize the Acropolis · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2

Life events

• Cylon married a daughter of Theagenes, the tyrant of Megara.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2 · 📍 Megara)
  • With: Theagenes, tyrant of Megara
  • “who had married a daughter of Theagenes, a Megarian, at that time tyrant of Megara.”
• Cylon seized the Acropolis intending to make himself tyrant.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2 · 📍 Acropolis of Athens)
  • “when the Olympic festival in Peloponnese came, he seized the Acropolis, with the intention of making himself tyrant”
• Cylon escaped the siege with his brother.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2 · 📍 Acropolis)
  • “Accordingly Cylon and his brother made their escape”

Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2

• with Theagenes, tyrant of Megara (Cylon was Theagenes's son-in-law.) “a victor at the Olympic games, of good birth and powerful position, who had married a daughter of Theagenes, a Megarian, at that time tyrant of Megara.”

Also listed in Athenian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.