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- The Bacchiadae (Ancient Gr****: 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 Gr****: 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...
- Arrhabaeus, the king of Lynkestis, who claimed Corinthian aristocratic (Bacchiadae) origin. He was the maternal grandfather of Eurydice I of Macedon, mother...
- not in Crete, but in Lydia, which should signify on Mount Sipylus. The Bacchiadae were exiled by the tyrant Cypselus about 657 BC. M.L. West, "'Eumelos':...
- monarchy. Special prestige attached to the Lyncestae whose royal family, the Bacchiadae claimed descent from Heracles, and to the Macedonians, whose royal family...
- 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...
- grand-daughter of the Lynkestian king Arrhabaeus, member of the Doric Gr**** Bacchiadae family. Eurydice had four children: Alexander II, Perdiccas III, Philip...
- independent polity ruled by a local dynasty which claimed descent from the Bacchiadae, a Gr**** aristocratic family from ancient Corinth. They were ruled by...