Sicyon

American  

[sish-ee-on, sis-] / ˈsɪʃ iˌɒn, ˈsɪs- /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.

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Sicyon British  

/ ˈsɪsɪˌɒn, ˈsɪsɪən /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese near Corinth: declined after 146 _bc

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Other Word Forms

• Sicyonian adjective

Example Sentences

Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Painting and sculpture flourished there, and there was a special school of Sicyon, whose features we can still recognize in extant copies of the famous statues they produced.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

EUTYCHIDES, of Sicyon in Achaea, Greek sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century B.C., was a pupil of Lysippus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

But Epigonius was by birth an Ambraciot, but he was subsequently made a citizen of Sicyon.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

There is good evidence that its sway extended originally over the entire Argolis peninsula, the land east of Parnon, Cythera, Aegina and Sicyon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various