
016 The "Age of Tyranny"
The History of Ancient Greece
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Phydon's Intervention at Olympia
If we accept 668 BC as the date of Phydon's military intervention at Olympia, then Phydon can be linked. His object was to secure the predominance of Argos in the northern Peloponnese. He is mentioned in Aristotle's politics as a baseless king who became Taranos. It seems that either both Ephorus and Herodotus were mistaken, or there was another Phydon at Argos later. In any event, the early Phydon was said to have lost his life in a faction fight at Corinth.
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