The Dates of the Orthagorids of Sicyon

Abstract

Orthagoras accomplished a rather remarkable feat in ancient Greece: he established a
tyranny that endured long after his death. It gained, in fact, areputation as the "hundred years' tyranny", as it were. A number of tyrants from Orthagoras' family seem to have mied in Sicyon, whereas most tyrannies were incapable of securing a stable succession to the next generation.