HUM 2 Lecture 10: Humanities 2 - Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome - 10
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Any war fought over the oracle of apollo at delphi. Cirrhans accused of extorting tolls from pilgrims on their way to the oracle. Cleisthenes of sicyon came to the aid delphi. Blockaded the port so that food could not come in. Alchmion of athens was the father of megacles. Cirrha was destroyed and then dedicated to apollo (cannot be tolled) Cleisthenes celebrated by four years later assisting in the reordering of the pythian. Alchmion becomes cleisthenes brother-in-law games in delphi. He founds his own pythian games in sicyon. He was overthrown by spartans around 555. Meeting of peloponessian league in sparta at end of 6th century. Before rise of cypselid, corinth governed by aristocratic clan bacchiads. Successful as archaic corinth was one of the wealthiest city-states, a hub of trade, and quick to colonize. Bacchiad named amphion had a daughter labda (lambda, written with one leg shorter than the other)
