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Myron
2. Tyrant of Sicyon, the father of Aristonymus, and grandfather of Cleisthenes.
He gained the victory at Olympia in the chariot-race in the thirtythird Olympiad (B. C. 648).
In commemoration of this victory he erected a treasury at Olympia, consisting of two chambers, lined with plates of brass. (Paus. 6.19.1; Hdt. 6.126.)
Peisander
（*Pei/sandros), literary.
1. A poet of Cameirus, in Rhodes.
The names of his parents were Peison and Aristaechma, and he had a sister called Diocleia; but beyond these barren facts we know nothing of his life or circumstances.
He appears to have flourished about the 33d Olympiad (B. C. 648-645), though, according to some, he was earlier than Hesiod, and was a contemporary and friend of EUMOLPUS. This latter statement, however, is only an instance of the way in which the connection between the great early masters of poetry and their followers in the same line was often represented as an actual personal relation. Peisander was the author of a poem in two books on the exploits of Hercules.
It was called *(Hra/kleia, and Clement of Alexandria (Clem. Al. Strom. vi. p. 266, ed. Sylb.) accuses him of having taken it entirely from one Pisinus of Lindus.
In this poem Hercules was for the first time represented as armed with a club, and covered with the lion's skin, instead of the