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Cleisthenes of Sicyon
Cleisthenes was tyrant of Sicyon in the northern Peloponnese in the early sixth century BCE, of the Orthagorid family. He fought in the First Sacred War against Kirrha on behalf of Delphi and won the chariot race at the Pythian Games. Herodotus tells how he held a year-long contest for the hand of his daughter Agariste, grandmother of the Athenian reformer Cleisthenes.
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