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Argive (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
From that time the Sicyonians became Dorians and their land a part of the Argive territory. The city built by Aegialeus on the plain was destroyed by Demetrius the son of Antigonus,303 B.C. who founded the modern city near what was once the ancient citadel. The reason why the Sicyonians grew weak it would be wrong to seek; we must be content with Homer's saying about Zeus:—Many, indeed, are the cities of which he has levelled the strongholds.When they had lost their power there came upon them an earthquake, which almost depopulated their city and took from them many of their famous sights. It damaged also the cities of Caria and Lycia, and the island of Rhodes was very violently shaken, so that it was thought that the Sibyl had had her utterance about RhodesThat it should perish and he left destitute. fulfilled.
When you have come from the Corinthian to the Sicyonian territory you see the tomb of Lycus the Messenian, whoever this Lycus may be; for I can discover no Messenian Lycus who
Rhodes (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Maeander (Turkey) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Dyme (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Caria (Turkey) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Peloponnesus (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Lycia (Turkey) (search for this): book 2, chapter 7
Pellene (search for this): book 2, chapter 7