Clisthenes

Family: Sicyonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8

Clisthenes was the son of Aristonymus and king of the Sicyonians in the lower part of the city. In Book 2, a brass Hercules by Lysippus is also noted as Sicyonian.

In Book 10, the Amphictyones chose Clisthenes to lead their war against Cirrha and invited Solon to advise them. After the Amphictyones captured the town and punished its inhabitants for their impiety against Apollo, Cirrha became the seaport of Delphi.

Relationship record

Life events

• Clisthenes was chosen leader, and Solon was invited to advise the war against Cirrha.(Book 10 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Cirrha)
  • With: Solon
  • “The Amphictyones resolved therefore to war against the people of Cirrha, and chose for their leader Clisthenes the king of Sicyon, and invited Solon the Athenian to assist them by his counsel.”
• The Amphictyones captured Cirrha and punished its inhabitants for their impiety against Apollo.(Book 10 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Cirrha)
  • With: Solon
  • “And when he thought the water of the river sufficiently impregnated with this, he turned it back into its ordinary channel, and the people of Cirrha, drinking freely of the water, were attacked with an incessant diarrhœa, and unable to man the walls, so the Amphictyones captured the town, and took vengeance on the inhabitants for their conduct to the god, and Cirrha became the seaport of Delphi.”

Book 2 · Chapter 8

• parent: Aristonymus “For Clisthenes the son of Aristonymus, the son of Myro, was king of the Sicyonians in the lower part of the city”

Book 2 · Chapter 9

• with Lysippus (No relationship between Clisthenes and Lysippus is stated; this edge is not supported and should be excluded.) “There is also a Hercules in brass, by Sicyonian Lysippus.”

Book 10 · Chapter 37

• with Solon (Clisthenes led the campaign while Solon assisted it with his counsel.) “The Amphictyones resolved therefore to war against the people of Cirrha, and chose for their leader Clisthenes the king of Sicyon, and invited Solon the Athenian to assist them by his counsel.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.