Preview   Scholarship on the Corinthian tyranny divides between that which extrapolates history from the legends[1] and that which views them as fictive.[2] Ogden’s book belongs to the latter. The first chapter reduces the birth narrative of Cypselus (Hdt. 5.92) to ten elemental components: 1) connection through the maternal line to the ancien régime; 2) … Continue reading The tyrants of Corinth: legends of Cypselus and Periander