Sigeion

Sigeion (Greek Σίγειον, latin Sigeum ) was in ancient times the name of the foothills in the west of Asia Minor Troad and a Greek city on this promontory at the entrance to the Hellespont ( Dardanelles ).

Sigeion was originally settled by Äoliern from Mytilene. Around 600 BC settled there settlers from Athens under the leadership of the Olympic champion Phrynon down. After prolonged fighting between Athenians and Mytilenern, during which Phrynon fell in a duel and the poet Alcaeus fled from the battle, it came under the mediation of the Corinthian tyrant Periander to a truce, and Mytilene, founded near the settlement Achillion. Renewed conflict broke out around 540 BC, during which the Athenian tyrant Pisistratus his son Hegesistratus began as ruler of Sigeion. After his expulsion from Athens 510 BC Pisistratus ' son and successor Hippias in Sigeion settled, which was now under Persian suzerainty. The city was in the 5th century to the Delian Confederacy. During the Diadochenkriege Sigeion was conquered by Lysimachus and destroyed in the 3rd century BC to the neighboring Ilion.