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Aratus of Sicyon (Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σικυώνιος; 271–213 BC) was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece. He was elected strategos of the Achaean League 17 times, leading the League through numerous military campaigns including the Cleomenean War and the Social War.
Aratus Of Sicyon (born 271 bc —died 213) was a Greek statesman of the Hellenistic Period, a skilled diplomatist and guerrilla fighter who for many years was the leading spirit of the Achaean League. After liberating Sicyon in 251, he established a democracy there and united it
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Aratus of Sicyon, (born 271—died 213 bc ), Hellenistic Greek statesman, diplomat, and soldier. He democratized Sicyon (251) and, as leader of the Achaean League (in alternate years from 245), set up democracies in league cities and helped free Athens from Macedonia (229).
Oct 30, 2020 · This chapter provides an analysis of Aratus, one of the most influential and important figures of the Achaean federal state. It describes his life and actions that lead to the rise of the Achaean federal state as a leading and robust state in southern Greece and the Peloponnesus. It provides evidence of a series of strategic choices by Aratus ...
- Emmanouil M. L. Economou
- 2020
In 251, Aratus of Sicyon, the 20-year-old son of Cleinias, conquered the city with a night assault and expelled the last tyrant. Aratus re-established democracy, called back the exiles and brought his city into the Achaean League.
Aratus, having absolute power given him to bring these to consign punishment, executed as many of them as he could find at Sicyon, but going about to find them out and punish them at Corinth also, he irritated the people, already unsound in feeling and weary of the Achaean government.
Aratus of Sicyon ( Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σικυώνιος; 271–213 BC) was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece. He was elected strategos of the Achaean League 17 times, leading the League through numerous military campaigns including the Cleomenean War and the Social War.
