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A tyrant of the city of Korinth (Corinth) from 655-625 BCE and the father of Periander.
Kypselus was the son of Eetion and Labda; Labda was a daughter of the ruling family of Korinth, the Bakkhiadae (Bacchiadae), and was forced to marry below her social station because she was lame; when Kypselus was born, the oracle at Delphi predicted that the boy would overthrow the Bakkhiadae and establish a new ruling dynasty in Korinth; members of the Bakkhiadae plotted to kill Kypselus but Labda hid Kypselus in a chest and he lived to fulfill the prophecy by ousting the Bakkhiadae and becoming the new tyrant of Korinth; his name comes from the Greek word Kypsele, meaning Chest or Vessel.
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