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    Sicyon (/ˈsɪʃiˌɒn, ˈsɪs-/; Greek: Σικυών; gen.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth...
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  • (/ˈklaɪsθɪniːz/ KLYSSE-thin-eez; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Κλεισθένης) was the tyrant of Sicyon from c. 600–560 BC, who aided in the First Sacred War against Kirrha that...
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    Lysippos (redirect from Lysippus of Sicyon)
    bronze, which resurfaced around 1972, has been associated with him. Born at Sicyon around 390 BC, Lysippos was a worker in bronze in his youth. He taught himself...
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  • Sostratus of Sicyon (‹See Tfd›Greek: Σώστρατος, Sostratos) was an Olympic athlete and pankratiast from Sicyon in Ancient Greece, known for his style of...
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    BC Aratus of Sicyon I 245–244 BC Aratus of Sicyon II 243–242 BC Aegialeas 242–241 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon III 241–240 BC Aratus of Sicyon IV 239–238 BC...
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    Aratus of Sicyon (Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σικυώνιος; 271–213 BC) was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece. He was elected strategos...
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    the Sicyonia, upon the left bank of the Asopus, distant 60 stadia from Sicyon, and 40 from Phlius. It was situated upon the summit of a hill, where Titan...
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  • Neophron (redirect from Neophron of Sicyon)
    Neophron of Sicyon (Νεόφρων, -ονος) was one of the most prolific of the ancient Greek dramatists, to whom are accredited one hundred and twenty pieces...
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  • mythology, Epopeus (/ɪˈpoʊpiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἐπωπεύς) was the 17th king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops (ἔποψ), the hoopoe,...
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  • ] (Ancient Greek: Ζεύξιππος) was the successor of Phaestus as king of Sicyon and in turn succeeded by Hippolytus, grandson of the former ruler. Zeuxippus...
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  • Ancient Greek: [kléɔːn]) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon from c. 300 to c. 280 BCE. According to Plutarch, he was assassinated and...
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  • Aristratus was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon who flourished in the years when Philipp II of Macedon established his hegemony over...
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  • around 560 BC) was the daughter, and possibly the heiress, of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes. Her father wanted to marry her to the "best of the Hellenes"...
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  • individuals in Greek mythology or literature: Aegialeus (King of Sicyon), reputed founder of Sicyon as 'Aegialea' Aegialeus (King of Argos), elder son of Adrastus...
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    Tfd›Greek: Πράξιλλα), was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC from Sicyon on the Gulf of Corinth. Five quotations attributed to Praxilla and three...
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  • Mnasitheus or Mnesitheus of Sicyon (Greek: Μνησίθεος) was an ancient Greek painter of some fame mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. In...
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  • city-state of Aegialea, later known to history as Sicyon. The primary source for the early history of Sicyon was the writing of Castor of Rhodes, known from...
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  • Νικοκλῆς; ruled 251 BC) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in the 3rd century BC; to which position he raised himself in 251 BC by...
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    period tyrants came in the early 6th century BC, when Cleisthenes ruled Sicyon in the Peloponnesus and Polycrates ruled Samos. During this time, revolts...
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    second or third time) Agarista, the daughter of the tyrant Cleisthenes of Sicyon. They had two sons, Hippocrates and another Cleisthenes, this one the reformer...
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  • Canachus (redirect from Canachus of Sicyon)
    Canachus (Ancient Greek: Κάναχος Kanakhos) was a sculptor of Sicyon in Corinthia, in the latter part of the 6th century BCE. He was especially noted as...
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  • the 20th king of Sicyon who reigned for 40 years. Polybus was the son of Hermes and Chthonophyle, daughter of the eponym of Sicyon. He had a daughter...
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  • Pythocles of Sicyon was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 136th Olympiad (236 BC). In his...
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  • Timanthes of Sicyon (Greek: Τιμάνθης ὁ Σικυώνιος) was an ancient Greek painter of the 3rd century BC. In 250 BC he accompanied Aratus of Sicyon on his voyage...
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    Eutychides /juːˈtɪkədiːz/ (Ancient Greek: Εὐτυχίδης, Eutukhídēs) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a...
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  • Xenokrates of Athens or of Sicyon (Greek: Ξενοκράτης; fl. c. 280 BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor and writer, and one of the world's first art historians...
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  • city-state of Sicyon, is assassinated by Nicocles, with the acquiescence of the Macedonian king Antigonus II. Nicocles reigns as tyrant of Sicyon for only...
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  • the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Abantidas, the tyrant of Sicyon, is murdered by his enemies and is succeeded by his father, Paseas. Philopoemen...
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    Butades of Sicyon (Ancient Greek: Βουτάδης Boutades), sometimes mistakenly called Dibutades, was the reputed inventor of the art of modelling clay in relief...
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  • Apollonides (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης) of Sicyon was a man of ancient Greece who served as an ambassador for Achaea in the 2nd century BCE. When in 186...
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