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Si'cy-on, on the eastern border of Achaia, was at times an independent state. South of Achaia was the central region of Arcadia, surrounded by a ring of mountains, and completely encompassed by the other states of the Peloponnesus. It was inhabited by a people simple in their habits and manners, noted for their fondness for music and dancing, their hospitality, and pastoral customs.
In painting, the Asiatic school of Zeuxis and Parrhasius was also followed by a "Si-cy-o'ni-an school" the third and last phase of Greek painting, founded by Eupom'pus, of Si'cy-on. The characteristics of this school were great ease, accuracy, and refinement. Among its chief masters were Pam'philus, Apel'les, Protog'enes, Ni'cias, and Aristides.
"She produced no artists to be compared with those of Argos, Corinth, Si'cy-on, and of many other cities, while she could boast of no poets as celebrated as those of the Ionian and AEolian schools." But at the opening of the Persian wars the artistic and literary talent of Greece began to center in Athens, and with the close of that contest properly begins the era of Athenian greatness.
This Athenian school of sculpture was followed, in the time of Alexander the Great, by what was called the Si-cy-o'ni-an school, of which Euphra'nor, of Corinth, and Lysip'pus, of Si'cy-on, were the leading representatives. The former was a painter as well as sculptor. His statues were executed in bronze and marble, and were admired for their dignity.
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