Periander
historical figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Periander son of Cypselus · Periander the Corinthian · Periander the son of Cypselus · son of Cypselus
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
The Histories
Tyrant of Corinth; friend of Thrasybulus; protagonist of the Arion episode
Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth.
The Milesians add that Periander son of Cypselus, a close friend of the Thrasybulus who then was sovereign of Miletus, learned what reply the oracle had given to Alyattes, and sent a messenger to tell Thrasybulus so that his friend, forewarned, could make his plans accordingly.
At last Periander was so angry that he drove the boy from his house.
Stromata
Tyrant of Corinth, sometimes numbered among the Seven Sages.
and they wish "Practice accomplishes everything" to be Periander's;
As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:
Against Boeotus II
Younger brother of the speaker's mother.
My mother, men of the jury, was the daughter of Polyaratus, of Cholargus, and sister of Menexenus, and Bathyllus and Periander.
Bathyllus (for Periander was still a boy) then gave her again in marriage with the talent for her dowry, and she dwelt with my father as his wife.
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
The person associated with the law under which the navy-boards were constituted.
The law of Periander forced us and laid command upon us to receive the list of those who owed equipment to the state,—I mean the law in accordance with which the navy-boards were constituted.
Orations
Ruler of Corinth, son of Cypselus, called king by divine oracle and wise man among the Greeks though also termed a tyrant.
but both, tyrant and wise, he alone.
So then Periander was by the god proclaimed king, but by the Greeks wise;
the one, having abolished the democracy, was tyrant of the Athenians, but Periander had received the kingship from his father, whom the Greeks called tyrant, but the gods king.
Republic
Tyrant of Corinth, listed among powerful men Socrates suspects originated the saying about benefiting friends and harming enemies.
Do you know, said I, to whom I think the saying belongs—this statement that it is just to benefit friends and harm enemies?