. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . i (see above). Acragas, the most beautiful city of mortals according to Pindar, wasfounded by colonists from Gela in 582. The Doric settlers, some of themnatives of Rhodes, introduced the worship of Athene of Lindus and alsothat of Zeus Atabyrius, the Moloch of Bit. Tabor. After havingerected a temple to Zeus Polieus, the founder of cities, Phalaris usurpedthe supreme power with the assistance of his workmen, and ruled from564 to 549, when he was deposed by the Eumenides Telemachus, and anoligarchy of sixty years no
. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . i (see above). Acragas, the most beautiful city of mortals according to Pindar, wasfounded by colonists from Gela in 582. The Doric settlers, some of themnatives of Rhodes, introduced the worship of Athene of Lindus and alsothat of Zeus Atabyrius, the Moloch of Bit. Tabor. After havingerected a temple to Zeus Polieus, the founder of cities, Phalaris usurpedthe supreme power with the assistance of his workmen, and ruled from564 to 549, when he was deposed by the Eumenides Telemachus, and anoligarchy of sixty years now began. The cruelty of Phalaris has becomeproverbial; he is said, for instance, to have sacrificed human victims toZeus Atabyrius in red-hot bulls of metal. In 488 Theron, a descendantof Telemachus, subverted the oligarchy, and extended the dominions ofAcragas as far as the X. coast, where he conquered Himera. Allied withhis son-in-law Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse, he defeated the Carthaginiansat Himera in 480 (p. 316), after which he devoted his attention to the im-.
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