1. 1987.A History of Samos70–2. Clarendon Thucydides 1.13 synchronizes the reign of Polycrates with Cambyses's rule (530 BC-522 BC). Polycrates's control of Samos went back earlier, but this essay deals only with the last years of Polycrates's reign, and does not touch upon the thorny problem of the chronology of his entire career. For the family, see G. Shipley