Fulvia died while Antony was en-route to Sicyon ( where Fulvia was exiled ).

There was a tradition that Proetus had founded a sanctuary of Hera, between Sicyon and Titane, and one of Apollo at Sicyon.

After Antiope was impregnated by Zeus and fled to marry king Epopeus in Sicyon, the Bibliotheca reports that Nycteus killed himself in shame, after asking Lycus to punish her.

Epopeus ( Ἐπωπεύς ) was a mythical Greek king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops ( ἔποψ ), the hoopoe, the " watcher ".

Epopeus was in fact the most memorable king at Sicyon and features in Euripides ' Antiope.

In the etiological myth that accounted for the origin of rituals propitiating the daimon of Epopeus, it was told that Zeus impregnated Antiope, who, being the wife of Nycteus, fled in shame to Epopeus, king of Sicyon, abandoning her children, Amphion and Zethus.

Antiope fled in shame to King Epopeus of Sicyon, but was brought back by Lycus through force, giving birth to the twins Amphion and Zethus on the way.

During a feud between the most powerful houses in Argos, Talaus was slain by Amphiaraus, and Adrastus being expelled from his dominions fled to Polybus, then king of Sicyon.

After his death he was worshipped in several parts of Greece, as at Megara, at Sicyon where his memory was celebrated in tragic choruses, and in Attica.

The author of Ekphráseis ( Descriptions ) found that the statue of Caerus at Sicyon resembled Dionysus, with his forehead glistening with graces and a delicate blush on his cheeks: "... though it was bronze, it blushed ; and though it was hard by nature, it melted into softness ".

Pausanias shares his source with Castor of Rhodes, who used the king-list in compiling tables of history ; the common source was convincingly identified by F. Jacoby as a lost Sicyonica by the late 4th-century poet Menaechmus of Sicyon.

Sicyon was built on a low triangular plateau about two miles from the Corinthian Gulf.

About this time, Sicyon developed the various industries for which it was noted in antiquity.

In Sicyon also the art of painting was supposed to have been invented.

In the 5th century BC, Sicyon, like Corinth, suffered from the commercial rivalry of Athens in the western seas, and was repeatedly harassed by squadrons of Athenian ships.

During this period, Sicyon reached its zenith as a centre of art: its school of painting gained fame under Eupompus and attracted the great masters Pamphilus and Apelles as students ; its sculpture was raised to a level hardly surpassed in Greece by Lysippus and his pupils.

However, the rest of the expedition achieved little: Sicyon and Pellene became allied to Thebes, and the countryside of Troezen and Epidaurus was ravaged, but the cities could not be taken.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

* Zeuxippe was the daughter of Lamedon ( son of Coronus ) and Pheno, and with her husband Sicyon was the mother of Chthonophyle.

* Corinth and Sicyon: Neighbouring towns in the northern Peloponnese, they are used metaphorically in a prophecy quoted by the oracle monger to define an intermediate space inhabited by dogs and crows i. e. Cloudcuckooland ( line 968 ).

In Chapter 15, he tells the story of Butades of Corinth: “ Butades, a potter of Sicyon, was the first who invented, at Corinth, the art of modelling portraits in the earth which he used in his trade.

* Hippolytus of Sicyon ( not the same as Hippolytus )

He then attacks Sicyon and Acarnania, after which he unsuccessfully tries to take Oeniadea on the Corinthian Gulf, before returning to Athens.

Again in the Corinthian war, Sicyon sided with Sparta and became its base of operations against the allied troops round Corinth.

The cities and states of the Corinthian dialect region were Corinth, Sicyon, Cleonae, Phlius, the colonies of Corinth in western Greece: Corcyra, Leucas, Anactorium, Ambracia and others, the colonies in and around Italy: Syracuse and Ancona, and the colonies of Corcyra: Dyrrachium, Apollonia.

One of them, Erginus, had stolen the Corinthian royal treasury and he decided to store his fortune at Sicyon.

* Abantidas, the son of Paseas, becomes tyrant of the Greek city-state of Sicyon after murdering Cleinias.

* The Eurypontid King of Sparta, Agis IV, is called away from Sparta when Aratus of Sicyon, temporarily Sparta's ally, requests Agis ' aid in his war against the Aetolians.

* As general of the Achaean League, Aratus of Sicyon defeats the Aetolians at Pellene and then pursues a policy of establishing democracies in the Peloponnese.

Fulvia fled with her children and is exiled to Sicyon, where she died of a sudden illness.

Proetus consented and Melampus, having chosen the most robust among the young men, gave chase to the mad women, amid shouting and dancing, and drove them as far as Sicyon.

They first stayed with King Polyphides of Sicyon, and later with King Oeneus of Calydon.

** Aratus of Sicyon, Greek statesman, general and advocate of Greek unity, who, for many years, has been the leader of the Achaean League ( b. 271 BC )

In Sicyon, Cleisthenes had usurped power on behalf of an Ionian minority.

* Aratus of Sicyon, Greek statesman, general and advocate of Greek unity, who, for many years, has been the leader of the Achaean League ( b. 271 BC )

* Aratus of Sicyon counters Aetolian aggression by obtaining the assistance of the Hellenic League now under the leadership of Philip V of Macedon.

Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after Zeus raped her, and married King Epopeus there.

However, either Nycteus or Lycus attacked Sicyon in order to carry her back to Thebes and punish her.

* After the Spartan King Cleomenes III takes Pellene, Phlius and Argos, Aratus of Sicyon is forced to call upon King Antigonus III of Macedonia for assistance.

* The Spartan King Cleomenes III captures Mantineia and defeats the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon at Hecatombaeum, near Dyme in north-eastern Elis.

* Cleomenes III defeats the Achaeans under Aratus of Sicyon at Mount Lycaeum and at Ladoceia near Megalopolis.

* Aratus of Sicyon brings Argos into the Achaean League and then helps liberate Athens.

* Aratus of Sicyon brings Megalopolis into the Achaean League.

* With Aetolia now as its ally, the Achaean League under the command of Aratus of Sicyon repeatedly attack Athens and Argos.

* Without a declaration of hostilities, Greek statesman, Aratus of Sicyon, who has gradually built up the Achaean League into a major power in Greece, makes a surprise attack on Corinth and forces the withdrawal of the Macedonian occupation troops.

* Aratus of Sicyon is elected general ( strategos ) of the Achaean League.

* Paseas, the tyrant of the Greek city-state of Sicyon, is assassinated by Nicocles, with the acquiescence of the Macedonian king Antigonus II.

Nicocles reigns as tyrant of Sicyon for only four months, during which period he drives into exile eighty of the city's citizens.