Ancient Sicyonians

Lysippos (; ) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty in identifying his style in the copies which survive. Not only did he have a large workshop and many disciples in his immediate circle, but there is understood to have been a market for replicas of his work, supplied from outside his circle, both in his lifetime and later in the Hellenistic and Roman periods

Greek statesman, general and Achaean League strategos (271-213 BC)

thumb|upright|Marble sculpture of a dancing female figure, sometimes identified as Lysippus' sculpture of Praxilla. Praxilla (), was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC from Sicyon on the Gulf of Corinth. Five quotations attributed to Praxilla and three paraphrases from her poems survive. The surviving fragments attributed to her come from both religious choral lyric and drinking songs (skolia); the three paraphrases are all versions of myths. Various social contexts have been suggested for Praxilla based on this range of surviving works. These include that Praxilla was a hetaira (courtes

6th-century BC tyrant of Sicyon

Canachus ( ) was a sculptor of Sicyon in Corinthia, in the latter part of the 6th century . He was especially noted as the author of two great statues of Apollo, one in bronze made for the temple at Didyma near Miletus, and one in cedar wood made for Thebes. The coins of Miletus furnish us with copies of the former and show the god to have held a stag in one hand and a bow in the other. The rigidity of these works naturally impressed later critics.

Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon.

Abantidas (in Greek Ἀβαντίδας) (died 252 BC), the son of Paseas, became tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in 264 BC after murdering Cleinias, the father of Aratus. After the assassination, Abantidas had the remaining friends and relations of Cleinias banished or put to death.

Anaxandra (; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece. She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She painted She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis (Miscellanies) entitled "Women as Well as Men Capable of Perfection". Clement cites a lost work of the Hellenistic scholar Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.

Eupompus (Ancient Greek: ) was the founder of the great Sicyonic school of painting, which flourished in the 4th century BC at Sicyon in Ancient Greece. He was eclipsed by his successors, and is chiefly remembered for the advice which he is said to have given to Lysippus: to follow nature rather than any master.

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mother of the Athenian politician Cleisthenes

Lysistratus (; ) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippos. According to Pliny the Elder, he followed a strongly realistic line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster.

purported painter of Ancient Greece

thumb|200px|Marble Roman copy of Eutychides' Tyche of [[Antioch, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums; original dates back to the 3rd century BC.]] Eutychides (, ) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of the Tyche of Antioch, a goddess who embodied the idea of the then newly founded city of Antioch. The Tyche was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican. It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities;

Greek tyrant of Sicyon (ruled 251 BC)

Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

Orthagoras was a tyrant of ancient Sicyon in the mid-7th century BC. He founded the Orthagorid tyranny, which, according to Aristotle, was the longest-lasting tyranny in Greece (approximately 100 years).

ancient Greek sculptor and writer

Alypus () was a sculptor of ancient Greece, a native of Sicyon. He studied under Naucydes of Argos. His age may be fixed from his having executed bronze statues of some Spartans who shared in the victory of Lysander at Aegospotami around 405 BC. Pausanias also mentions some statues of victors of the Ancient Olympic Games made by him.

Nealkes or Nealces () was an ancient Greek painter from Sicyon who flourished in the 3rd century BC.

Greek sculptor, active ca. 400 BCE

ancient Greek tyrant

ancient Olympic athlete

ancient Greek athlete

ancient Greek sculptor, fl. c. 380 BCE