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Periander

The tyrant of the city of Korinth (Corinth) circa 625-585 BCE.

Periander succeeded his father Kypselus (Cypselus) and, at the beginning of his reign, was a wise and beneficial ruler; he was noted as a stern but fair man with a devotion to the arts and an inspiration to commerce; he was also included as one of the Seven Sages by some historians which is an indication of his reputation not only in Korinth but throughout the ancient civilized world; his father had been a brutal and murderous man and Periander soon became as notorious and deadly as his father.

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