Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . made himself tyrant of Selinous. Presentlythe people rose and slew him. But we are now coming to much more famoustyrants than these. A great line of rulers arose atGela, but they did not stay there. All that we knowof Gela in these times is that there were disputes in thecity, and that at one time one party seceded, as it iscalled in the Roman history, to the town of Makto-rion in the Geloan territory. They were broughtback, neither by force nor by persuasion, but by thewonder-working power of some holy things of thenether-gods—perhaps of the two goddess
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . made himself tyrant of Selinous. Presentlythe people rose and slew him. But we are now coming to much more famoustyrants than these. A great line of rulers arose atGela, but they did not stay there. All that we knowof Gela in these times is that there were disputes in thecity, and that at one time one party seceded, as it iscalled in the Roman history, to the town of Makto-rion in the Geloan territory. They were broughtback, neither by force nor by persuasion, but by thewonder-working power of some holy things of thenether-gods—perhaps of the two goddesses of 68 THE FIRST AGE OF THE GREEK CITIES. Sicily. These holy things, whatever they were,were in the hands of Telines of Gela, a descendantof one of the first settlers. By their means, we arenot told how, he brought back the was rewarded with the hereditary priesthood ofthe deities whom he served, and his descendantsbecame great in Gela. About the year 505 theoligarchy in Gela was upset by the tyrant Kleandros,.
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