. Italy; handbook for travellers. 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 Mt. 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 becomep
. Italy; handbook for travellers. 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 Mt. 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 Tkeron, a descendantof Telemachus, subverted the oligarchy, and extended the dominions ofAcragas as far as the >*. 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-. ^ tou ?Wa-gnet A Dcljea. Leipiig. History. GreGENTI. 29. Route. 303 provement of Acragas. The town stood on a hill descending precipitouslyon the N. side, and sloping gently towards the coast on the S., boundedby the two rivers Acragas (Han Biagio) and Hypsas (Drago). It consistedof two parts: the Acropolis to the !N., the W. part of which, where thetemple of Zeus Polieus stood, contains the modern town (1080 ft.), whilethe E. part was called the Roct of Athene (1105 ft.); and the town properto the S., by the walls of which the ruined temples now lie. (The W. partof the Acropolis has been sometimes erroneously identified with the Sicaniantown of Camicus.) The prisoners of war captured in 480 (of whom some ofthe citizens possessed as many as 500 each) were compelled to excavatethe subterranean canals: the temples were also erected at that period, anda large fish-pond constructed. T/irasi/daeus, the son of Theron (d. 473),was very in
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