Aratus of Sicyon (Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σικυώνιος; 271–213 BC) was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece. He was elected strategos...

In Hellenistic times it was also the home of Aratus of Sicyon, the leader of the Achaean League. Sicyon was built on a low triangular plateau about...

of Keryneia 256–255 BC Aratus of Sicyon I 245–244 BC Aratus of Sicyon II 243–242 BC Aegialeas 242–241 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon III 241–240 BC Aratus of...

Margos of Keryneia 256 - 255 BC Aratus of Sicyon I 245 - 244 BC Aratus of Sicyon II 243 - 242 BC Aegialeas 242 - 241 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon III 241...

waged war against the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon. After being defeated by the Achaeans in the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC, he fled to Ptolemaic...

extent Aratus as the son of Asclepius was an existing mythological tradition and to what extent it was a post-hoc mythologizing of Aratus of Sicyon after...

(led by Apelles of Chalcis) and the Achaean leader Aratus of Sicyon. As the only power standing in the way of complete Macedonian control of Greece, the Aetolians...

Aratus of Soli was a Greek didactic poet. "Aratus" may also refer to: Aratus of Sicyon (271–213 BC), an ancient Greek statesman, sixteen times strategos...

marks of favour. When he was sacrificing to the gods in Corinth, he sent portions of the meat to Aratus at Sicyon, and complimented Aratus in front of his...

Antisthenes of Rhodes Aratus of Sicyon Artapanus of Alexandria Berossus Callixenus of Rhodes Cleitarchus Craterus (historian) Ctesicles Deinias of Argos Demetrius...

Sicyonian of the same name helped Aratus of Sicyon to liberate his hometown from the tyrant Nicocles, and since Aratus was surrounded by many artists, there...

his biography of Aratus of Sicyon, where the author narrates the destruction of the former tyrants' portraits in the town hall of Sicyon after the reintroduction...

ravaging Achaea. At Mount Lycaeum he defeated an army under Aratus of Sicyon, the strategos of the Achaean League, that had been sent to attack Elis, and...

exhorted by Aratus of Sicyon, Megara expelled its Macedonian garrison and joined the Achaean League, but when the Achaeans lost control of the Isthmus...

or four terms as strategos of the Achaean League between 226 and 215 BC. He was considered a supporter of Aratus of Sicyon. Economou, Emmanouil M. L....

(assassinated) Paseas, 252-251 BC (assassinated) Nicocles, 251 BC (expelled by Aratus of Sicyon) Hegesistratus, fl. 510 BC Timesilaus, before 433 BC Scydrothemis,...

October 42 BC) was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name...

regional power. This prompted the chief figure of the Achaean League, Aratus of Sicyon, to approach the King of Macedon, Antigonus III Doson, for military...

leadership of Aratus of Sicyon, the Achaeans liberated many cities, in several cases by convincing the tyrants to step down, and when Aratus died in 213...

onslaught of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Chremonidean War (267–261 BC). However, the rebellion of Aratus of Sicyon in 251 BC led to the formation of the Achaean...

Plutarch says that that Nealkes was a friend of Aratus of Sicyon, who was first elected strategos of the Achaean League in 243 BC. This would make it...

Greek Ξενων) was the last tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Hermione. In 229 BC he was convinced by Aratus of Sicyon to step down from his post and let...

BC he lost the elections against Aratus of Sicyon, but was chosen as hipparch, in this position he fell at the gates of his city during a cavalry charge...

re-elected many times to the office in the Achaean League, were Aratus of Sicyon and Philopoemen of Megalopolis. Strategoi are also reported in the Arcadian...

People') on the southern slope of the Acropolis. Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus's escape...

Spartan king Cleomenes III took Langon following his victory over Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaeans near Hecatombaeon. Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2...

was convinced to resign by Aratus of Sicyon and let his city join the Achaean League. As a reward, he was elected strategos of the League. Later he betrayed...

Europe for naming years. The Eurypontid King of Sparta, Agis IV, is called away from Sparta when Aratus of Sicyon, temporarily Sparta's ally, requests Agis'...

annexes the southern kingdoms till the realms of the three crowned kings of Chola,Chera and Pandya Aratus of Sicyon, Greek general (strategos) and statesman...

command followed suit. Meanwhile, in Sicyon, Fulvia died of a sudden and unknown illness. Fulvia's death and the mutiny of their soldiers allowed the triumvirs...