Note 1104 — Chapter VII · Corinth

In Aristotle Gorgos is Susemihl’s emendation for Gordios. In Plutarch’s Sept. Sap. Conv. 17 (Moral. 160) Gorgos (Didot, Gorgias) brother of Periander takes part, and the name occurs too often to be a mistake for some quite different name. Nic. Dam. F.H.G. III. p. 393 mentions a Gorgos son of Periander who broke his neck when chariot racing. There can be little doubt that in all these passages the same name should be read, and that that name should be Gorgos, which appears on Ambracian coins as that of a local hero. See Mon. Ined. Inst. I. pl. XIV. nos. 1, 2. The name Gordios was much used in the Phrygian royal family. But as in Aristot. Pol. 1315b it is probably only an intrusion for the less familiar Gorgos it is no evidence for connexion between the Cypselids and the house of Midas.