Ancient Coin Stories

Kleisthenes becomes tyrant of Sikyon.

Kleisthenes of Sikyon leads the First Sacred War against Phokis and destroys Kirrha.

Approximate end of the tyranny of Kleisthenes of Sikyon.

Sparta crushes Argos at the Battle of Sepeia. Sikyon participates with 12 ships.

The Greek allies are forced to withdraw against the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium. Afterwards the Persians occup Histaia. The Greek fleet is supplied by Athens, Chalkis, Sparta, Troizen, Opuntian Lokris, Corinth, Megara, Epidauros, Aegina, Sikyon, and Kios.

Athenians attempt to land at Halieis but are repulsed by Sikyon.

Athens under Tolmides lands at Sikyon and defeats them.

Sikyon is again defeated by Athens, this time under Perikles, though the city is not taken due to help from Sparta.

Megara revolts against Athens and is supported by Sikyon.

Athens under Demosthenes invade Sikyon, but are repelled by them.

Sikyon and Corinth prevent Athens under Alkibiades from fortifying Rhion.

Sparta and Sikyon march under King Agis against Argos, but a truce is arrived at before battle.

Sparta and their allies, including Sikyon and Tegea, defeat Athens and their allies at the Battle of Nemea. On Athens side are Thebes, Lokris Opuntii, and Corinth. With Sparta are Halieis, Sikyon, Epidauros, Troizen, and Hermione. Phlious remains neutral. Pellene fights on the side of Sparta against Thespiai.

Sparta uses Sikyon as a base to take the long walls of Corinth. Sparta succeeds though Sikyon takes heavy losses against Argos.

Iphikrates of Athens regains the long walls of Corinth and advances against Phlious and Sikyon.

Agesilaos executes an expedition against Thebes, with support from Sikyon and Phlious.

Thebes attacks Spartan territory in Prasiai. Sikyon rushes to help Sparta.

Euphron becomes tyrant of Sikyon.

Sparta, Athens, Pellene, and Sikyon attempt to stop Thebes under Epaminondas by guarding the fort of Oneion near Corinth. Epaminondas gets around them and attacks Sikyon, Pellene, Epidauros, and unsuccessfully attempts to take Corinth.

Soldiers from Syracuse support Sparta against Thebes, then invade and defeat Sikyon.

Sikyon helps Argos in a war against Phlious.

Athens under the general Chares attempt to take Oropos, which had been taken by Sikyon with the support of Thebes, but the Athenians are forced to withdraw.

Arkadians under Aineas of Stymphalos march to Sikyon and send Euphron into flight.

Euphron with the help of Athens recaptures Sikyon, except for the akropolis, which is guarded by a Theban garrison.

Euphron flees Sikyon to Thebes, where he is killed.

Epaminondas and Boeotia defeat Sparta at the Battle of Mantinea. However, the death of Epaminondas would spell Thebes‘ downfall. On the side of Thebes were Tegea, Argos, Messene, Sikyon, and the Aenianians. On the side of Sparta were Heraia, Athens, Elis, and Mantinea.

Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, is assassinated in Sikyon. His wife Kratesipolis takes control of the city.

Kratesipolis wards off the army of Antigonos’ general Telesphoros from Sikyon.

Polyperchon controls much of the Peloponnese, including Corinth and Sikyon.

Ptolemy I takes Sikyon from Kratesipolis and installs garrisons in Sikyon and Corinth.

Demetrios Poliorketes seizes Epidauros, Sikyon, Corinth, Bura, Argos, and Orchomenos.

Demetrios Poliorketes relocates Sikyon to a more defensible location.

Athens and Sikyon form an alliance, the nature of which is not known.

Antigonos II installs the tyrant Kleon at Sikyon.

Antigonos II installs the tyrant Abantidas at Sikyon.

Antigonos II installs the tyrant Paseas at Sikyon.

The tyrant Iseas of Aegira is overthrown by Aratus of Sikyon, a key leader of the Achaean League, who frees the city from local tyranny.

Antigonos II installs the tyrant Nikokles at Sikyon.

Aratos of Sikyon removes the tyrant Nikokles, who Antigonos II had installed. Antigonos II attempts to bribe Aratos but is unsuccessful.

Aratos of Sikyon takes Acrocorinth. The inhabitants of Corinth rise up against Antigonos II.

Aratos of Sikyon takes the Acrocorinth and frees Argos. Xenon steps down in Hermione.

The Spartans under King Kleomenes III defeat the Achaian League under Aratos of Sikyon (and including Argos and Megalopolis) in the Battle of Dyme.

Mantineia is sacked by Antigonos III Doson. The city is handed over to Aratos of Sikyon, who repopulates it and renames it to Antigonia.

The Social War begins, pitting members of the Achaian League, including Aegira, Patrai, Dyme, Bura, Sikyon, Corinth, Megalopolis, Messenia, Argos, Elis, and Macedon, against Sparta under King Kleomenes III, who were supported by the Aetolian League and Athens.

The Aetolians defeat the Achaian League under Aratos of Sikyon near Kaphyai.

The meeting of the Achaian assembly is transferred from Aigion to Sikyon.

A Roman army under Sulpicius Puplius and the Aetolian League ravages Sikyon before being pushed out by Philip V.

During the Second Macedonian War between Rome and Philip V of Macedon, Aegira, the Aetolian League, Corinth, Sikyon, Patrai, Athens, Pergamon, and Rhodes support Rome.

The Achaian League is defeated by Rome at the Battle of Skarpheia. Corinth is destroyed and Dyme, Patrai, Sikyon, Bura, Megalopolis, Thebes, Pellene, and Aegira come under the control of Rome.