Gorgos (tyrant of Ambrakia)

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Gorgos or Gordios was the son of Kypselos , the tyrant of Corinth and a concubine. Gorgos was the tyrant of Ambrakia .

Together with a Corinthian army, Gorgos and Kypselos moved to the Ambracian Gulf and conquered the country. Gorgos founded the cities of Ambrakia and Anaktorio . He pierced an isthmus and made Lefkas , which he now called Leukas , into an island.

Gorgos had two sons, Periander and Psammetich . After his death, Periander became the tyrant of Ambrakia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aristotle : Politics , 5, 12
  2. ↑ Strabon , Geographica , 7, 7, 6 (p. 325)
  3. ↑ Strabon, Geographica , 7, 7, 6 (p. 325)
  4. ↑ Strabon, Geographica , 10, 2, 8 (p. 452)
personal data
SURNAME Gorgos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorgus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ruler of Ambrakia
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Greece Ancient Greece Ambrakia
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC Chr.