Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . DAMARATEION. of Sicily. But they were not disturbed in theirpossessions in western Sicily. And a story was toldthat Gelon made it one of the terms of peace thatthe Carthaginians should give up the practice ofhuman sacrifices. This cannot be true; for nopeople interfered in this way with the religion ofanother, and the Carthaginians certainly did not giveup the practice. But they may have engaged not tosacrifice Greeks; in any case he who devised thestory well understood the difference between Greekand Phoenician religion, and all that was implied in astr
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . DAMARATEION. of Sicily. But they were not disturbed in theirpossessions in western Sicily. And a story was toldthat Gelon made it one of the terms of peace thatthe Carthaginians should give up the practice ofhuman sacrifices. This cannot be true; for nopeople interfered in this way with the religion ofanother, and the Carthaginians certainly did not giveup the practice. But they may have engaged not tosacrifice Greeks; in any case he who devised thestory well understood the difference between Greekand Phoenician religion, and all that was implied in astruggle between the two nations. DEATH OF GELON. 83 Gelon himself gave great gifts to the gods of hisown people at Olympia and elsewhere. He built thetemples of Demeter and the Kore on the south side ofEpipolai, and he began another temple near ^^tnawhich he did not finish. For he died two years afterhis great victory, in the year 478 He was buriedwith all honour, and commemorated by a statelytomb in the low ground between Epipolai
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