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 aiKYON AFTER KLEISTIIKXK.s. 37 tions could never have been acknowledged or employed amcng the Dorians themselves. After the lapse of sixty years from the death of Kleisthenes, the Sikyonians came to an amicable adjust- ment of the feud, and placed the tribe-names on a footing satisfac- tory to all parties ; the old Dorian denominations (Hylleis, Pam- phyli, and Dymanes) were reestablished, and the name of the fourth tribe, or non-Dorians, was changed from Archelai to JEgia- leis, jEgialeus son of Adrastus being constituted their epony- mus. 1 This choice of the son of Adrastus for an eponymus, seems to show that the worship of Adrastus himself was then revived in Sikyon, since it existed in the time of Herodotus. Of the war which Kleisthenes helped to conduct against Kir- rha, for the protection of the Delphian temple, I shall speak in another place. His death and the cessation of his dynasty seem to have occurred about 650 B. c., as far as the chronology can be made out. 2 That he was put down by the Spartans, as K. F. 1 Herod, v, 68. Touroiai rolat ovvofiaai TUV Qvhewv expiuvro ol SIKVIJ- viot, Knl ;u KAetcrtfereoc upxovrof, KOI EKEIVOV Te&veurof en e;r' erf a i$rj- Kovra fiereiiELTa fievroi Tioyov aipiai dovref, (uripahov ef rovf 'YA/.eaf xal IIa j u0i'Aoi>f KOL Avfiavuraf reTuprovf tie avrolai TtpoaedevTO im TOV 'Adpf/a- rov TraaJof Al ytaAeof rrfv t7ruvv/j.ir}v iroievfievoi KK%.qa$ai A/yta/lfaf. 8 The cliror.ology of Orthagoras and his dynasty is perplexing. The commemorative offering of Myron at Olympia is marked for 648 B. c., and this must throw back the beginning of Orthagoras to a period between 680-670. Then we arc told by Aristotle that the entire dynasty lasted one hundred years ; but it must have lasted, probably, somewhat longer, for the death of Kleisthenes can hardly be placed earlier than 560 B. c. The war against Kirrha (595 B. C.) and the Pythian victory (582 B. c.) fall within his reign : but the marriage of his daughter Agariste with Mcgaklcs can hardly be put earlier than 570 B. c., if so high ; for Kleisthenes the Athenian, the son of that marriage, effected the democratical .revolution at Athens in 509 or 508 B. c. : whether the daughter, whom Megakles gave in marriage to Peisistratus about 554 B. c., was also the offspring of that marriage, as Larcher contends, we do not know. Megakles was the son of that Alkmseon who hc.d assisted the deputies sent by Crcesus of Lydia into Greece to consult the different oracles, and whom Crcesus rewarded so liberally as to make his fortune Ccompare Herod, i, 46 ; vi, 1 '25 ) : and the marriage of Megakles was in the next gencratk n after this enrichment of Alkmson, /ISTU. de,yeveri tievrepri va-epov (Herod vi, 126). Now the reign of Crcesus extended from 560-546 B. c.. and his deputation to the oracles in Greece appears to have taken place about 556 B. c. ; and if this chronology be admitted, the mr.rriage of Megakles with