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Gelon, the Glossary

Gelon also known as Gelo (Greek: Γέλων Gelon, gen.: Γέλωνος; died 478 BC), son of Deinomenes, was a Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, Sicily, and first of the Deinomenid rulers.^[1]

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478 BC deaths
6th-century BC monarchs
People of the Sicilian Wars
Sicilian Greeks
Sicilian tyrants

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.

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Agrigento

Agrigento (Girgenti or Giurgenti; translit; Agrigentum or Acragas; ’GRGNT; Kirkant, or جرجنت Jirjant) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Charles Oman

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British military historian.

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Charles Rollin

Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 in Paris - 14 December 1741 in Paris) was a French historian and educator.

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Connop Thirlwall

Connop Thirlwall (11 January 1797 – 27 July 1875) was an English bishop (in Wales) and historian.

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Deinomenes

Deinomenes was the father of Hieron I, Gelo (or Gelon), Thrasyboulos, and Polyzelos. Gelon and Deinomenes are 5th-century BC Greek people.

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Edward Augustus Freeman

Edward Augustus Freeman (2 August 182316 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament.

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Gela

Gela (Sicilian and; Γέλα) is a city and (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of area and population, it is the largest municipality on the southern coast of Sicily.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. Gelon and Herodotus are 5th-century BC Greek people.

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Hiero I of Syracuse

Hieron I (Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, from 478 to 467 BC. Gelon and Hiero I of Syracuse are 5th-century BC Greek people, ancient Greek generals and Sicilian tyrants.

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Himera

Himera (Greek: Ἱμέρα), was a large and important ancient Greek city situated on the north coast of Sicily at the mouth of the river of the same name (the modern Imera Settentrionale), between Panormus (modern Palermo) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù) in the comune of Termini Imerese.

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Hippocrates of Gela

Hippocrates (Ἱπποκράτης; died 491 BC) was the second tyrant of Gela, Magna Graecia, and ruled from 498 BC to 491 BC. Gelon and Hippocrates of Gela are 5th-century BC Greek people and Sicilian tyrants.

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Hybla Heraea

Hybla Heraea or Hybla Hera (Greek: Ὕβλα Ἡραία or Ὕβλα Ἥρα) was an ancient city of Sicily; its site is at the modern località of Ibla, in the comune of Ragusa.

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J. B. Bury

John Bagnell Bury (16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist.

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Kamarina, Sicily

Kamarina or Camarina (Καμάρινα) was an ancient city on the southern coast of Sicily in Magna Graecia.

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List of tyrants of Syracuse

Syracuse (Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia. Gelon and List of tyrants of Syracuse are Sicilian tyrants.

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Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea (Μέγαρα Ὑβλαία) – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta on the east coast, north-northwest of Syracuse, Italy, on the deep bay formed by the Xiphonian promontory.

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Messina

Messina (Missina) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina.

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Naxos (Sicily)

Naxos or Naxus (Νάξος) was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia, presently situated in modern Giardini Naxos near Taormina on the east coast of Sicily.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Punic people

The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age.

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Selinunte

Selinunte (Selīnoûs; Selīnūs; Silinunti) was a rich and extensive ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia on the south-western coast of Sicily in Italy.

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Sicels

The Sicels (Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age.

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Sling (weapon)

A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to hand-throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead "sling-bullet".

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Sparta

Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

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Syracuse, Sicily

Syracuse (Siracusa; Sarausa) is a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse.

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Terillus

Terillus (Τήριλλος; fl. early 5th century BC) was a son of Crinippus, tyrant of Himera, in Sicily, Magna Graecia. Gelon and Terillus are 5th-century BC Greek people and Sicilian tyrants.

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Theron of Acragas

Theron (Θήρων, gen.: Θήρωνος; died 473 BC), son of Aenesidemus, was a Greek tyrant of the town of Acragas in Sicily in Magna Graecia from 488 BC. Gelon and Theron of Acragas are 5th-century BC Greek people and Sicilian tyrants.

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Thrasybulus of Syracuse

Thrasybulus (Θρασύβουλος) was a tyrant who ruled Syracuse, Magna Graecia, for eleven months during 466 and 465 BC. Gelon and Thrasybulus of Syracuse are Sicilian tyrants.

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Tilos

Tílos (Τήλος; Telos) is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea.

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Timoleon

Timoleon (Greek: Τιμολέων), son of Timodemus, of Corinth (–337 BC) was a Greek statesman and general. Gelon and Timoleon are ancient Greek generals, people of the Sicilian Wars and Sicilian tyrants.

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Tyrant

A tyrant, in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.

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William Smith (lexicographer)

Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer.

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Xerxes I

Xerxes I (– August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelon

Also known as Gelo, Gelon I, Gelon of Syracuse.

Gelon, the Glossary

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478 BC deaths

6th-century BC monarchs

People of the Sicilian Wars

Sicilian Greeks

Sicilian tyrants

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