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Sicyon/Demetrias

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified Nov 15, 2023 02:15 PM — History
Sicyon/Demetrias was an important ancient city of the Corinthiad, located some 26 km to the west of Corinth. The city had a long history, beginning in the Archaic period when Orthagorid tyrants ruled it. It flourished in later Archaic and Classical times, was a member of the Peloponnesian League, and became a center of Theban power after 371 B.C. The city was long noted for its association with fine arts and during the fourth century B.C. produced the famous sculptor Lysippos. Under Aratos, Sicyon joined the Achaean League in 251 B.C. By the time Pausanias visited the site, declining political fortunes and disastrous earthquakes had reduced it to a ruinous state.

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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D2 Sicyon/Demetrias

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Vasiliko. Writing the entry in PECS, Ronald Stroud notes that the original settlement (Old Sicyon) was likely to be found at modern Kiato on the Corinthian Gulf. The present archaeological site that aligns with the place visited by Pausanias is the result of the intervention of Demetrios Poliorketes who moved the settlement some 4 km inland in 303 B.C. and had it occupy two upland plateaus. The lower part of the site is mostly occupied by modern Vasiliko.


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G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Sicyon/Demetrias: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570668> [accessed: 16 April 2024] 

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