Kylon

English Etymology en grc Κῠ́λων. Proper noun en Cylon. en 1847 w:George Grote Solonian Laws and Constitution History of Greece III (part II (Continuation of Historical Greece)) London John Murray,Albemarle Street. 190 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45364/page/n204/mode/1up 889250025 We may however follow the course of ideas under which Solon was induced to write this sentence on his tables, and we may trace the influence of similar ideas in later Attic institutions. It is obvious that his denunciation is confined to that special case in which a sedition has already broken out: we must suppose that Kylon has seized the Acropolis, or that Peisistratus, Megaklês, and Lycurgus, are in arms at the head of their partisans. en 1990 Philip Brook Manville Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 1992 (2nd printing) 77 https://archive.org/details/originsofcitizen0000manv/page/77/mode/1up 0-691-09442-X Initial indications appear in the story surrounding “the first certain event of Athenian history”—the attempted coup d’état of the nobleman Kylon. In about 630 Kylon, a recent Olympic victor and powerful aristocrat, stormed the Athenian Akropolis with the aim of making himself tyrant. en 1994 w:Richard Seaford Reciprocal Violence at Athens Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State Oxford, Oxfordshire Clarendon Press 2003 (reprint) chapter 3 (Death Ritual and Reciprocal Violence in the Polis) 98 https://archive.org/details/reciprocityritua0000seaf/page/98/mode/1up 0-19-815036-9 What we can say is that the transition from Kylon to Epimenides has in the historical tradition been shaped by the same imaginative articulation that produced the Orestes myth. Derived terms en Kylonian