Literature

Sikyoniki Anagraphe was a state document preserved at Sikyon in which history of important events, mainly having to do with art, were recorded. Though this work has been lost, we can find fragments of it in ancient writers.
Literature was highly developed at Sikyon from very early times.
Epigenes of Sikyon wrote the first tragedy. Until the time of Kleisthenes the poems of Homer were recited and tragedies were performed, as for example the one Herodotos mentions about the heroic deeds and sufferings of Adrastos. All these changed with the coming of Kleisthenes who prohibited recitations of the poems of Homer, the choruses and drama performances to the Dorian hero Adrastos and brought back the cult of Dionysos. But literature did not die, Kleisthenes invited poets at his court.

Praxilla of Sikyon 450 BC wrote poetry of several different types and was well known for writing songs that were a favorite part of drinking party music in fifth-century Athens (defined as skolia, which means drinking songs). She wrote hymns about various gods and goddesses, and many of the eight remaining fragments of her work have to do with themes in myths. Praxilla was noted for the delicacy of her verses.
Here is a surviving fragment of one of her poems (for which she was critisized!):
"Most beautiful of things I leave behind is sunlight;
then come the shining stars and the moon's face;
then ripe cucumbers and apples and pears".

Aristarchos of Sikyon wrote about Geography, as well as Diogenes of Sikyon who wrote "Ta peri Peloponneson" (about Peloponnese).

Axioristos of Sikyon, poet who wrote the Kanon and Gnomai.

Machon of Sikyon, about first half of 3rd century BC, poet and comic author who immigrated at Alexandria and died there, wrote the Chreiai which was a collection of jokes about famous men and hetaerae. These jokes were widely known in Greece.

Sophilos of Sikyon wrote Middle Comedy.

Tyndarichos of Sikyon who wrote on Cookery in Verse!

Ariphron whose the Paian to Hygieia was preserved by Athenaios and from inscriptions from Epidauros and Athens.

Menaichmos of Sikyon, around 3rd century BC, prose writer, poet, sculptor, wrote a History of Sikyon, a Delphic History (Pythikos), Alexander's History, On Craftsmen in which inventions of instrumental and other musical works were mentioned, and On Metal Work.

Mnasalkes of Sikyon about 225 BC epigramatist was from the village of Plataiai in Sykionia. A lot of his work is preserved in the Greek Anthology.

Phylarchos of Sicyon who wrote a Sikyonian Constitution.

Euphronidas of Sikyon grammarian a teacher of Aristophanes of Byzantion.

Herakleitos of Sikyon, wrote On Stones.

Ariston of Sikyon, son of the Athenian tragic poet Sophokles and Theoris of Sikyon, wrote a tragedy Thyestes at Sikyon.