The Bacchiadae (Ancient Greek: ΒακχιάδαιBakkhiadai), 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.
The Bacchiadae (Ancient Greek: Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai), a tightly knit Doric clan, were the ruling family of ancient Corinth in the eighth and seventh centuries...
dynasty, usurped power, became tyrant and expelled the Bacchiadae. According to Herodotus the Bacchiadae heard two prophecies from the Delphic oracle that...
Bellerophon. Corinth had been a backwater in Greece in the 8th century BC. The Bacchiadae (Ancient Greek: Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai) were a tightly-knit Doric clan and...
traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth, a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiadae ruling family in archaic Corinth, who was treasured as the traditional...
Heraclid descent, such as Lysander. At Corinth the Heraclids ruled as the Bacchiadae dynasty before the aristocratic revolution, which brought a Bacchiad aristocracy...
ancient Greek lawmaker at Thebes. Philolaus belonged by birth to the Bacchiadae family of Corinth who arose as Nomothete (lawmaker) at Thebes. He became...
independent polity ruled by a local dynasty which claimed descent from the Bacchiadae, a Greek aristocratic family from ancient Corinth. They were ruled by...
Olympiads. Diocles is said to have been the beloved of Philolaus of the Bacchiadae family of Corinth who arose as Nomothete (lawmaker) at Thebes. Diocles...
Arrhabaeus, the king of Lynkestis, who claimed Corinthian aristocratic (Bacchiadae) origin. He was the maternal grandfather of Eurydice I of Macedon, mother...
grand-daughter of the Lynkestian king Arrhabaeus, member of the Doric Greek Bacchiadae family. Eurydice had four children: Alexander II, Perdiccas III, Philip...
to the period following the expulsion from Corinth of the aristocratic Bacchiadae, who traced their descent from Dionysus: "the cult of the god had to develop...
overthrow the aristocratic power of the dominant but unpopular clan of Bacchiadae. Clan members were killed, executed, driven out or exiled in 657 BC. Corinth...
(Greek: Εὔμελος ὁ Κορίνθιος Eumelos ho Korinthios), of the clan of the Bacchiadae, is a semi-legendary early Greek poet to whom were attributed several...
Aristoi were tightly knit families who had noble lineage, such as the Bacchiadae in ancient Corinth. In the early 6th century BC, Solon promulgated constitutional...
at Rome begins with Demaratus of Corinth, a member of the house of the Bacchiadae at Corinth, which was expelled in 657 BC. Demaratus settled at Tarquinii...
Demaratus was a Dorian nobleman and a member of the Corinthian house of the Bacchiadae. Facing charges of sedition, in 655 BC he fled to Italy, according to...
Corinth, who moved to Thebes to live with Philolaus of Corinth (of the Bacchiadae) and would be buried with him. In Thebes, Philolaus was a legislator who...
maternal grand-father Arrhabaeus as "Lynkestian" from the Doric Greek Bacchiadae family. Modern scholars are divided on whether they are historically accurate...
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