Sicyon

Region: Southern Europe · Coordinates: 37.984, 22.712 · 13 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
456 BCThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian WarTolmides sails around the Peloponnese, burns the Spartan shipyard and wins a landing battle at Sicyon
454 BCThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian WarPericles lands at Sicyon with 1,000 men, wins, and ferries the Achaeans across
453 BCDiodorus Siculus, Library of HistoryThe whole Sicyonian force came out and fought, and Pericles won.
392 BCXenophon, HellenicaThe Argive army defeats the Sicyonian army and chases it to the sea, but Praxitas's side counterattacks and massacres many.
369 BCXenophon, HellenicaThe Theban and allied army attacks Sicyon and Pellene, plunders the territory of Epidaurus, and comes up to the gates of Corinth, where it suffers losses from the counterattack of light troops.
369 BCXenophon, HellenicaA detachment from Dionysius (about twenty triremes, Celts, Iberians, and cavalry) arrives and captures more than seventy men on the plain of Sicyon.
366 BCXenophon, HellenicaIn Sicyon Euphron, with the help of Argive and Arcadian troops, sets up a democracy and becomes a tyrant.
366 BCXenophon, HellenicaEuphron approaches Sparta but gives up; with Athenian mercenaries he retakes Sicyon and wins popular support.
303 BCDiodorus Siculus, Library of HistorySicyon was guarded by Ptolemy's soldiers.
251 BCPlutarch's Parallel LivesWhen Aratus's party seizes Sicyon, the tyrant Nicocles flees through an underground passage
213 BCPlutarch's Parallel LivesThe story that Aratus died of poison at Sicyon
208 BCLivy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita)Sulpicius's fleet anchors between Sicyon and Corinth and plunders their fertile land
198 BCPolybius, HistoriesAttalus is given a most lavish reception at Sicyon
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