Sicyone

Sicyone (in Greek old Σικυών / Sikyốn ) was a Greek quoted of the Peloponnese, located on a plate, not far from the Golfe of Corinth.

Mythology

Sicyone was famous the being one of oldest cities of Greece. It was known before under the names of Égialée, then of Méconé. It is there that one placed the theater of the invention of the Sacrifice by Prométhée. Its hero éponyme, Égialée, passed according to the versions for the son of the god river Inachos or for a indigenous.

History

Sicyone was founded by the Ioniens with. It was taken during the invasion of the Doriens, and passed under supervision of Argos. It reaches its apogee at seventh century BC, under a line of Tyran S anti-Doriens. Among those appeared Clisthène, grandfather of the Clisthène which reformed Athens.

Sicyone quickly became a great arts center, in particular in the field of the sculpture. Its workshops of Bronze and Céramique were very famous. Its school of sculpture formed throughout the Antiquité of large artists like Lysippe, Polyclète or Scopas. It is even in this city that, thought the Greeks, the Peinture had been invented. After the fall of the tyrants, prosperity continued until the end of sixth century BC Sicyone fell then into the orbit from Sparte. It took part in the Ligue of the Peloponnese against Athens, at the same time in the Peloponnesian War and later. This was cause of its catch by the Thébains in 369 av. J. - C.. It was destroyed during the time hellenistic by Démétrios Poliorcète in 303 av. J. - C., and rebuilt not far from there.

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