Sigeum
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Sigeum on the Hellespont · Sigeum on the Scamander
in the texts
The Histories
Town on the Scamander/Hellespont to which the expelled Pisistratidae withdraw and from which Hippias is later recalled by Sparta.
Afterwards they departed to Sigeum on the Scamander.
Perceiving all this, they sent to bring Pisistratus ' son Hippias from Sigeum on the Hellespont, the Pisistratidae 's place of refuge.
In the course of a battle in which the Athenians had the upper hand, Alcaeus the poet took to flight and escaped, but his armor was taken by the Athenians and hung up in the temple of Athena at Sigeum.
Second Olynthiac
A place named as a prize in the smaller wars that distract Athenian forces.
but in the other case the risks are smaller and the prizes fall to the officers and the soldiers— Lampsacus, for example, and Sigeum, and the plunder of the merchant-ships.
De Pallio
Site associated with a relic from Achilles's disguise as a maiden.
which that round-shielded one keeps for him at Sigeum.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Place to which the deposed Hippias first withdrew.
With regard to Hippias, having retained the tyranny at Athens three years longer, and being deposed in the fourth year by the Lacedaemonians and the banished Alcmaeonidae he went, under treaty, to Sigeum, then to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and thence to the court of king Darius;