Gelon, also known as Gelo, Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, died 478 BC. The first of the Deinomenid rulers, son of Deinomenes and brother of Hiero I. Head of a man wearing a royal diadem. Gelone. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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