Deed — 4 authors face each other below

the Cylonian affair

kind: conspiracy · c. 632 BCE — the editor’s frame · 4 mentions across 4 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Cylon's failed tyranny at Athens and the sacrilegious killing of his partisans — the origin of the Alcmaeonid curse later hurled at Pericles.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Herodotus and Thucydides tell the sacrilege differently enough that Thucydides' version reads as a quiet correction; Plutarch adds the suppliants' thread tied to the goddess's statue; Diogenes Laertius carries the aftermath — Epimenides called in to purify the city. A seventh-century scandal still working politics two centuries later.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at c. 632 BCE on the editor’s table of years — the record supports 640–624 BCE.

· c. 632 BCE — date approximate ·

Conventionally placed c. 632 BCE by Cylon's Olympic victory synchronism; the served accounts date it only relatively. The bounds carry the honest wobble.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

12 the principal narrative The trials of the accursed and the city's long agitation, as prelude to Solon.

Now the Cylonian pollution had for a long time agitated the city Plut. Solon 12

Solon · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Herodotus · one account

5.71 a digression — told out of its place The affair explained to gloss the curse invoked against Cleisthenes' family.

There was an Athenian named Cylon, who had been a winner at Olympia. This man put on the air of one who aimed at tyranny Hdt. 5.71

The Histories · A. D. Godley, 1920–25

Thucydides · one account

1.126 a digression — told out of its place The fuller telling, deployed to explain Sparta's demand to drive out the curse.

an Athenian of the name of Cylon, a victor at the Olympic games, of good birth and powerful position Thuc. 1.126

History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874

Diogenes Laertius · one account

1.110-112 the aftermath — the event itself offstage Epimenides' purification of Athens after the pollution.

the pollution which Cylon brought on the city and showed them how to remove it D.L. 1.110-112

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V) · R. D. Hicks, 1925

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Cleomenes — a candidate entry Megacles — a candidate entry Periander — 1 episode shared Pisistratus — 1 episode shared Solon — 1 episode shared Thales — 1 episode shared Theagenes — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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