Agariste of Sicyon

Agariste of Sicyon in Wikipedia

Agariste (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαρίστη) (fl. 6th century BC, around 560 BC) was the daughter, and possibly the heiress, of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes. Her father wanted to marry her to the best of the Hellenes and, subsequently, he organized a competition, whose prize was his own daughter. According to his declaration, all the eligible young men ...

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