Bacchiadae
The Bacchiadae (
Ancient Greek: Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai), a tightly knit Doric clan, were the ruling family of ancient Corinth
in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, a period of Corinthian cultural power.
History
Corinth had been a backwater in eighth-century Greece.prytanis who held the kingly position[4] for his brief term,[5] no doubt a council (though none is specifically documented in the scant literary materials) and a polemarchos to head the army.
In 657 BCE, the Bacchiadae were expelled in turn by the
foundation myths of Corcyra, Syracuse, and Megara Hyblaea[8] contain considerable detail about the Bacchiadae and the expeditions of the Bacchiad Archias of Corinth, legendary founder of Syracuse in 734–33 BCE, and Philolaos, lover of Diocles of Corinth, victor at Olympia in 728 BCE and a nomothete (lawgiver) of Thebes
.
Some of the Bacchiadae also fled to Sparta, for which they possibly fought against the Messenians during the Second Messenian War.[9]
List of the Bacchiad kings of Corinth
- Aletes 1073 - 1035 BCE
- Ixion 1035 - 997 BCE
- Agelas I 997 - 960 BCE
- Prymnis 960 - 925 BCE
- Bacchis 925 - 890 BCE
- Agelas II 890 - 860 BCE
- Eudemus 860 - 835 BCE
- Aristomedes 835 - 800 BCE
- Agemon 800 - 784 BCE
- Alexander 784 - 759 BCE
- Telestes 759 - 747 BCE
See also
References
- ^ Édouard Will, Korinthiaka: recherches sur l'histoire et la civilisation de Corinth des origines aux guerres médiques (Paris: Boccard) 1955.
- ^ Telestes was murdered by Arieus and Perantas, who were themselves Bacchiads. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I p. 450). To what extent this early "history" is genealogical myth is debated.
- ^ Herodotus 5.92.1.
- rex sacrorum.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 7.9.6; Pausanias 2.4.4.
- ^ His mother had been of the Bacchiadae, but being lame, married outside the clan.
- ^ Strabo, Geography, 7.7: "The Lyncestae were under Arrhabaeus, who was of the race of the Bacchiadae."
- ^ From the lost Megarian Constitution of Aristotle Plutarch derived his Greek Questions 17, 18 and 59 W.R. Halliday, Plutarch's Greek Questions, 1928, p. 92.
- ^ Wickert, Der peloponnesische Bund, p. 15 (note 35).
Bibliography
- Édouard Will, Korinthiaka: recherches sur l'histoire et la civilisation de Corinth des origines aux guerres médiques, Paris, Boccard, 1955.
- Konrad Wickert, Der peloponnesische Bund von seiner Entstehung bis zum Ende des Archidamischen Krieges, Erlangen, 1961.