Troops under Lucius Mummius destroyed this city during the Roman siege of 146 B.C. putting an end to the classical era.
This city was originally known as Ephyra and its early history saw the Bacchiadae clan overthrow Telestes. Tyrants of this city included one with a noted ivory chest and his son who was often lifted as a sage of Greece, Cypselus and Periander, who engineered the Diolkos. A coalition of cities fought Sparta in a late fourth century conflict named for this city, and this city's (*) "league" was a federation of states created by Philip of Macedon. Troops under Lucius Mummius destroyed this city during the Roman siege of 146 B.C. putting an end to the classical era. For 10 points, name this site of the Isthmian games whose colonies included Potidaea and Syracuse, located between the Peloponnesus and mainland Greece on a namesake isthmus which lends its name to an order of ancient architecture.
This city was originally known as Ephyra and its early history saw the Bacchiadae clan overthrow Telestes.
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