Κυψελιδῶν ἀνάθημα ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ

Plato in Phaedrus [mentions this]. "Beside the dedication of a wrought work by the Kypselidai was set up a colossus";¹ but it was not by the Kypselidai.² They say it was a dedication by Kypselos, as Agaklytos³ under the 80th Olympiad⁴ says as follows: "an ancient temple of Hera, a dedication by the people of Skillous, who belong to the Eleians. And in it there is a golden colossus, a dedication by Kypselos the Corinthian; for they say that Kypselos vowed that if he should become tyrant of the Corinthians he would make all their property sacred⁵ up to the tenth year, and that he called in the tithes of their properties and prepared the sculpted colossus." But Didymos⁶ says Periandros prepared the colossus with the aim of holding the Corinthians back from luxury and boldness. For indeed, Theophrastus in his work On Crises, book 2,⁷ says as follows: "Other people expend heavily on more manly things, such as by leading out armies and arousing wars, just as Dionysios the tyrant did. For that man thought he must consume not only the things of other people but also his own, so that no financial resources should be available to conspirators. And the pyramids in Egypt, and the colossus of the Kypselidai, and all things of this kind seem to have this intention in a similar degree." A certain epigram of the colossus is quoted: "I myself am a golden sculpted colossus; may the line of the Kypselidai be doomed."⁸ It is quoted by Apellas of Pontos↗⁹ as follows: "I myself am a Naxian, I am an all-gold colossus; may the line of the Kypselidai be doomed."¹⁰