Dynamic list of ancient Greek rulers over Syracuse
Syracuse (Greek: Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia. The city was founded by settlers from Corinth in 734 or 733 BCE, and was conquered by the Romans in 212 BCE, after which it became the seat of Roman rule in Sicily. Throughout much of its history as an independent city, it was governed by a succession of tyrants, with only short periods of democracy and oligarchy. While Pindar addressed the Deinomenids as kings (basileus) in his odes, it is not clear that this (or any other title) was officially used by any of the tyrants until Agathocles adopted the title in 304.[1]
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became the seat of Roman rule in Sicily. Throughout much of its history as an independent city, it was governed by a succession oftyrants, with only short...
Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrantofSyracuse in Sicily, from 478 to 467 BC. In succeeding Gelon...
son of Deinomenes, was a Greek tyrantof the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, Sicily, and first of the Deinomenid rulers. Gelon was the son of Deinomenes...
father of orator Lysias, philosopher Polemarchus and Euthydemus. Cephalus, Athenian orator who flourished after the time of the Thirty Tyrants. Cephalus...
all respects, having worked all his life with the tyrantsofSyracuse. His comedy preceded that of the more famous Aristophanes by staging the gods for...
oligarchies on the former members of the Delian League, including Athens, where the regime was known as the Thirty Tyrants. The Peloponnesian War was followed...
gods. ("Gustave Ducoudray, The history of ancient civilization: a handbook, 1889 pg 129) Gods, Heroes and Tyrants: Greek Chronology in Chaos By Emmet John...
upheaval in the late 5th century, Polemarchus was singled out by the Thirty Tyrants for being a wealthy metic. Unlike his brother, he did not manage to escape...
unsuccessful 643 Kasmenai is founded and annexed by Syracuse 637–630 Drought on Thera 633 Ambrakia founded by Tyrant Gorgus and Korinthians 632 Cylon, Athenian...
Ear of Dionysius (Italian: Orecchio di Dionisio) is a limestone cave carved out of the Temenites hill in the city ofSyracuse, on the island of Sicily...
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a life of Agathocles ofSyracuse and a number of treatises on literary and artistic subjects. Duris claimed to be a descendant of Alcibiades. He had a...
(485–465 BC) ofSyracuse and later with Dionysius I and his son Dionysius II, thus entering the orbit of the tyrants. In 477 BC Anaxilas of Rhegion was...
prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons. Listof assassinations Listof people who survived assassination attempts World Almanac 2004...
tyrants, he did not need a bodyguard and died a natural death. Aristotle reports that "Cypselus of Corinth had made a vow that if he became master of...
holding his breath. 212 BCE – Archimedes was killed during the Siege ofSyracuse by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. 207 BCE...
This listof unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources...
I ofSyracuse beginning in c. 382 BCE. It later appears in heraldry, and, other than in the flag of Sicily, came into use in the arms and flags of the...
based on the two verses by Mamercus that have been preserved. Listof ancient Greek tyrants Plutarch Timoleon 13 Plutarch Timoleon 13, 30, 31, 34; Diodorus...
chronological listof notable heads of governments and heads of state deaths that have resulted from assassination or execution. This list considers only...
great and mighty; who both contested with kings and tyrants; both lost their daughters, were driven out of their country, and returned with honour; who, flying...
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