Cylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kylonian
Etymology: From Cylon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Cylonian villany had a long while diſtur’d the Commonwealth, even from that time when Megacles the Archon perſwaded the conſpiratours with Cylon that took ſanctuary in Minerva’s Temple, to ſtand to a fair trial; […]
ref: 1683, Plutarch, “The Life of Solon”, in Thomas Creech, transl., Plutarchs Lives. Translated from the Greek […], volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: The first of the Cylonian glosses of Suidas (s.v. Κυλώνειον ἄγος) has a marked resemblance to the item from the Heracleidean Excerpts (i.e. ultimately Aristotle’s Respub. Ath.); while the other gloss (s.v. Περικλῆς), rewritten in the light of the former, has a Thucydidean foundation which is discernible in the Scholia cited: […]
ref: 1892, John Henry Wright, “The Date of Cylon”, in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, volume III, Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, section III (The Story of Cylon: Our Sources of Information), page 27:
text: The surviving portion of the Constitution of Athens begins with the aftermath of the Cylonian conspiracy (an incident also mentioned by Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch).
ref: 1987, Ian Morris, “Introduction: the argument”, in Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (New Studies in Archaeology), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Again, the parallel with the Cylonian story is worth noting, considering how important a role the theme of stoning plays in the Alcmaeonid traditions; […]
ref: 2013, Renaud Gagné, “Alcaeus”, in Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Sympotic theologies: Alcaeus, Solon, and Theognis), footnote 84, page 222:
glosses: Of or relating to Cylon of Athens, an Athenian noble who attempted a coup in either 636 BCE or 632 BCE.
examples: text: Anyhow it is chronologically impossible that the Archippus of this letter is the same as the Pythagorean who together with Lysis survived the Cylonian slaughter.
ref: 1971, G[erhard] J[ean] D[anie͏̈l] Aalders, “Political Thought and Political Programs in the Platonic Epistles”, in Pseudepigrapha I: Pseudopythagorica — Lettres de Platon, Littérature pseudépigraphique juive, Vandœuvres-Genève: Fondation Hardt, published 1972, →OCLC, page 171:
text: ca. 500 (?) Cylonian rebellion against Pythagoras (proceeding from the Crotonian upper class) ➛ Pythagoras’ emigration to Metapontum
ref: 2005, Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall, Christoph Riedweg, and Andreas Schatzmann, “Fifth century b.c.e.”, in Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, “Chronology” section, page 136:
text: Our first evidence concerns the dramatic episode in Pythagoras’ life when he left Croton because of the Cylonian revolt.
ref: 2016, Leonid Zhmud, “The Papyrological Tradition on Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans”, in Christian Vassallo, editor, Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources; Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at the University of Trier (22–24 September 2016), Berlin: De Gruyter, published 2019, →ISBN, part II (Pythagoreanism and Beyond), page 117:
glosses: Of or relating to Cylon of Croton, a leading citizen of Croton who led a revolt against the Pythagoreans, probably around 509 BCE.