Sicyon
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holy Sicyon
in the texts
Hellenica
City serving as the Lacedaemonian base of operations, both as a mustering point and as Praxitas's garrison post.
And as the two armies marched on, the Corinthians and their allies were in the district of Nemea, and the Lacedaemonians and their allies at Sicyon, at almost the same time.
Accordingly two men, Pasimelus and Alcimenes, undertook by wading through a torrent to effect a meeting with Praxitas, the Lacedaemonian polemarch, who chanced to be on garrison duty with his regiment at Sicyon, and told him that they could give him entrance to the walls which reached down to Lechaeum.
As for Sicyon, its government up to this time had been in conformity with its ancient laws.
The Histories
City ruled by the tyrant Cleisthenes, where Adrastus was honored, the marketplace held his shrine, and the Dorian tribes were renamed.
These were the names of the tribes which the Sicyonians used under Cleisthenes ' rule and for sixty years more after his death.
This, then, is what he did regarding Adrastus, but as for the tribes of the Dorians, he changed their names so that these tribes should not be shared by Sicyonians and Argives.
Furthermore, he conceived the desire to cast out from the land Adrastus son of Talaus, the hero whose shrine stood then as now in the very marketplace of Sicyon because he was an Argive.
Nemean
City with an Apollo shrine and games, starting point of the victory procession to Aetna and site of Chromius's chariot prize.
Muses, we will go in victory procession from Apollo’s shrine in Sicyon to newly-founded Aetna, where the doors flung open wide are overwhelmed by guests, at the prosperous home of Chromius.
Let someone mix the wine now, the sweet forerunner of victory-song, and dispense the powerful son of the vine in those silver goblets which once Chromius’ horses won for him and sent from holy Sicyon together with the duly twined garlands of Leto’s son.
And from Sicyon they returned with silver wine-goblets, and from Pellana with soft wool cloaks around their shoulders.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesian city attacked unsuccessfully by Demosthenes's forces.
But before all his ships reached the shore, the Sicyonians came against them, and routed those that had landed, and drove them back to their vessels, killing some, and taking others prisoners.
A short time after this battle, Demosthenes, having had no success with regard to Siphae being betrayed to him, when he sailed thither at that time, and having still on board his ships the Acarnanian and Agraean forces, with four hundred Athenian heavy-armed, made a descent on the territory of
And now the Lacedaemonians and Argives, each a thousand strong, took the field together, and the Lacedaemonians by themselves went and put the government of Sicyon into the hands of a smaller num ber than before, and then both of them together also put down the democracy at Argos, an oligarchy being established, in accordance with the interests of the Lacedaemonians.
Stromata
Sicyon, a Greek city whose early kings (Aegialeus, Europs, Telchis) are catalogued as chronological markers.
And in Greece there were, under Phoroneus who came after Inachus, the flood in the time of Ogyges and the kingdom in Sicyon — first of Aegialeus, then of Europs, then of Telchis — and the kingdom of Cres in Crete.
On the Treaty with Alexander
Greek city where Alexander is said to have reinstated a professional trainer.
Now the Macedonian king has been so unscrupulous about bearing arms that he has never yet laid them down, but even now goes about bearing arms, as far as is in his power, and more so indeed now than ever, inasmuch as he has reinstated the professional trainer at Sicyon by an edict, and other exiles elsewhere.
Iliad
Spacious city where Echepolos lived after giving his mare to Agamemnon.
for Zeus had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon.
On the Estate of Philoctemon
City to which the freedman Dion withdrew after committing a misdemeanor and fearing the consequences.
Some time later Dion, having committed a misdemeanor and being afraid of the consequences, withdrew to Sicyon.
Isthmean
City where the games of Adrastus were held, another site of the Cleonymid family's chariot victories.
She proclaimed their chariot victorious on the high ground of Athens and also in Sicyon at the games of Adrastus, and thus gave them leaves of song, like these, from the singers of their time.
Olympian
A site listed among the many locations of the Oligaethidae's victories.
and all their victories in Argos and in Thebes, and all that shall be witnessed by the royal Lycaean altar that rules over the Arcadians, and by Pellana, and Sicyon, and Megara, the beautifully enclosed precinct of the Aeacidae, and Eleusis and splendid Marathon, and the wealthy and beautiful cities beneath the high crest of Aetna, and Euboea—you may search through all Greece, and you will find th …