 After the Dorian invasion the city remained subject to Argos, whence its Dorian conquerors had come.The community was now divided into the ordinary three Dorian tribes and an equally privileged tribe of Ionians, besides which a class of serfs (, or , ) lived on and worked the land.For some centuries the suzerainty remained, but after 676 BC Sicyon regained its independence under a line of tyrants called the Orthagorides after the name of the first ruler Orthagoras.