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	Acragas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Acragas, on the south coast of Sicily, stood on a height a short distance from the sea.
		Acragas developed a busy commerce trading with the north African cities, including Carthage, as well as within the Greek world.
		A democracy was established at Acragas, however, the power of Acragas declined as Syracuse assumed a hegemony over the Sicilian Greek poleis.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/acragas.htm (715 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 14 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		§ 2.) [L. ('Attpcryas), a son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope, to whom the foundation of the town of Acragas (Agrigentum) in Sicily was ascribed.
		Pliny says that Acragas, Boethus and Mys were con sidered but little inferior to Mentor, an artist of great note in the same profession; and that works of all three were in existence in his day, preserved in different temples in the island of Rhodes.
		Those of Acragas, who was especially famed for his representations of hunting scenes on cups, were in the temple of Bacchus at Rhodes, and con sisted of cups with figures of Bacchae and Centaurs graved on them.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0023.html (1002 words)

	Polyaenus: Stratagems - Book 5 (a)
		The people of Acragas decided to build a temple to Zeus Polieus within their citadel; both because the ground there was the firmest and hardest, and therefore most suitable for foundations, and also because the site was the most elevated, and therefore most suitable for the temple of the god.
		When the men of Acragas attacked the Sicanians, Phalaris found it impossible to capture their city by siege, because they had laid aside a great quantity of corn, and therefore he entered into a treaty of peace with them.
		The men of Acragas pressed closely on them in their flight, and they were drawn a considerable distance from their city.
	www.attalus.org /translate/polyaenus5A.html (7505 words)

	Agrigentum - LoveToKnow 1911
		All are built in the Doric style, of the local porous stone, which is of a warm red brown colour, full of fossil shells and easily corroded when exposed to the air.
		We hear of it even in the Punic Wars as a fortified post of Acragas (E. Freeman, Hist.
		The attribution to Demeter is supported by the discovery of votive terra-cottas, representing Demeter and Kore in the neighbourhood, while the conjecture that it was dedicated to the rivergod Acragas rests on its position above the river, in the valley of which, indeed, a statue which may represent the deity has been discovered.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Agrigentum (1285 words)

	Phalaris of Acragas
		Phalaris:tyrant of Acragas on Sicily between c.570 and c.554, the proverbial "evil tyrant".
		The city of Acragas was founded in 580 BCE by people from Gela, a Greek town on Sicily that had been founded more than a century before by Rhodians and Cretans.
		We can no longer reconstruct what really happened in Acragas, but we can not exclude the possibility that two stories were conflated - one about human sacrifice in a Carthaginian village near Acragas, and one about a monumental statue dedicated by Phalaris to a river.
	www.livius.org /pha-phd/phalaris/phalaris.html (483 words)

	Detail Page
		Located inland, midway along the island's southern coast, Acragas is enclosed defensively within a three-sided, right-angled mountain ridge.
		Acragas lay close to the west Sicilian territory of the hostile Carthaginians, and the city soon fell under the sway of a Greek military tyrant, Phalaris, who enlarged the city's domain at the expense of the neighboring native Sicans, ca.
		Acragas thrived as an export center for grain to the hungry cities of mainland Greece.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0008 (359 words)

	Theosophy Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Acragas supported six splendid temples, one of them the second largest in the Greek world.
		Apparently the life of the city matched the grandeur of its buildings, for Empedocles once said that "the Acragantines feast as if they were going to die tomorrow, and build their houses as if they were going to live for ever".
		Once when a pestilence had settled on Acragas, Empedocles diagnosed the cause as a polluted breeze emanating from a mountain gully.
	www.theosophytrust.org /tlodocs/articlesTeacher.php?d=Empedocles.htm&p=39 (3290 words)

	Empedocles of Acragas presented in History section
		Empedocles was a citizen of Acragas in Sicily.
		Empedocles was a preacher of the new religion which sought to secure release from the “wheel of birth” by purity and abstinence.
		Orphicism seems to have been strong at Acragas in the days of Theron, and there are even some verbal coincidences between the poems of Empedocles and the Orphicising Odes which Pindar addressed to that prince.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/empedocles_of_acragas (1207 words)

	Empedocles, Chapter V. from Theodor Gomperz The Greek Thinkers (1920)
		He is worshipped as a democrat by the disciples of Mazzini and Garibaldi, because he overthrew the rule of the nobles who had oppressed Acragas for three years, and refused the royal crown for his own head.
		He was acclaimed by thousands and tens of thousands of the populace, who clung at his feet and implored him to direct them to a prosperous future, as well as to heal in the present their sickness and sores of all kinds.
		The sage of Acragas never concerned himself with the science of space and numbers, and he was but an indifferent student of the science of the stars.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/empedocles/gomperz-empedocles.htm (8028 words)

	Empedocles [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		From more reliable sources it seems that he was born at Acragas in Sicily around 492 BC and died at the age of sixty.
		Whether or not he was his pupil, Empedocles was certainly very familiar with the work of Parmenides from whom he took the inspiration to write in hexameter verse, and whose physical system he adopts in part, and partly seeks to rectify.
		This appears to fit in with the known history of Acragas where after the death of the popular and enlightened tyrant Theron in 473 BC his son Thrasydaeus proved to be a violent despot.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/e/empedocl.htm (5561 words)

	Himera, Italy
		Its most important citizen was the choral poet Stesichoros (his occupation of choral leader was also presumably the origin of his name), who treated the contents of the heroic sagas in a ballad-like form (around 600 B.C.).
		The greatest hour of Himera's history arrived in 480 B.C. Replying to the tyrant Terillos's cry for help against the threat from Theron of Acragas (Agrigento), the Carthaginians landed under the command of Hamilcar, who was almost certainly in league with the Persian king, Xerxes, who attacked Greece at the same time.
		The Carthaginians were, however, resoundingly defeated by Theron of Acragas and his stepson Gelon of Syracuse.
	www.planetware.com /palermo/himera-i-si-im.htm (291 words)

	Città di Termini Imerese - Himera
		Interestingly, another temple, a sister to this one, was built by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, to commemorate the same battle.
		The Theron, tyrant of Acragas, built the Temple of Athena as a victory offering.Battle of Himera, 409 BCE.
		General Hannibal, the grandson of Himilco, had brought along siege engines and artillery, new devices which with the Greeks were unfamiliar.
	www.comune.termini-imerese.pa.it /english/html/himera.htm (1544 words)

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		On the other hand, concerning Phalaris of Acragas, Luraghi shows how even late sources are colored by anti-tyrannical topoi and projections of the Acragantines in later times (33-34).
		Luraghi explains the rise of Phalaris with the early expansion of Acragas in the first half of the 6th century B.C. He then deals with the myths concerning Phalaris and shows that it is very difficult to take Phalaris as an historical person (36-49).
		The rule of Hippocrates was also the model for Theron of Acragas and his tyranny.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999_orig/1999-03-05.html (1372 words)

	The reign of Phalaris
		Between 570 and 544, Phalaris was tyrant of Acragas, a newly founded city in southern Sicily, which he made very powerful.
		The citizens of Acragas wanted to spend 200 talents building a temple for Zeus Polieus on the citadel, since it was rocky and firm and, in any case, they believed it would be proper to build the god's temple in the highest place.
		Phalaris, the tax-collector of Acragas, promised that if he became superintendent of the project, he would get the best artisans, provide inexpensive materials, and give reliable sureties for the money.
	www.livius.org /sh-si/sicily/sicily_t07.html (548 words)

	Gela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Syracuse alone survived the onslaught and to the throne came Dionysius I. He began fortifying the city of Syracuse, and building up armaments for the war which must come.
		The Geloans were resettled by Phintias, tyrant of Acragas, to a new location called, what else, Phintias.
		The minting of silver coins in Syracuse seem to indicate a source of silver native to Sicily.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/gela.htm (1583 words)

	Detail Page
		Empedocles was born to an aristocratic family of the Sicilian Greek city of Acragas.
		He is plausibly said to have helped establish Democracy at Acragas after the expulsion of the reigning tyrant, ca.
		He was an admired orator, who reportedly tutored the greatest Greek orator of the next generation, Gorgias of Leontini.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0194 (405 words)

	Empedocles of Acragas Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
		Empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily.
		The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name for the town was Agrigentum.
		Later the town was called Girgenti and more recently it became known by its present name of Agrigento.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /empedocles.htm (1093 words)

	History
		Carthage held control of the sea and Rome's chances of subduing the coastal cities were limited as a result.
		After the capture of Acragas, Rome decided to eliminate this barrier and began to build a fleet.
		With no naval tradition and no experience in ship building and using a grounded Carthaginian ship as a model with crews being trained on the land, Polybius tells us that one hundred quinqueremes were built in only sixty days.
	cornellia.fws1.com /Ancientworlds/first_punic_war.htm (798 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 1.4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Empedocles was said to have been in his prime in 450 B.C., to have been younger than Anaxagoras, whom we shall consider next, but to have begun his philosophical career earlier.
		A native of Acragas in Sicily, he was very active politically, an ardent democrat to whom many wondrous feats were attributed and duly recorded by Diogenes Laertius.
		Empedocles is said to have been, with Zeno, a student of Parmenides, and Theophrastus says that he is an imitator of Parmenides, something which surely has in view the fact that both men wrote in verse.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp104.htm (5120 words)

	Amazon.com: "Empedocles of Acragas": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Empedocles of Acragas had four elements: fire, water, aither, earth; their ruling cause is Love and Strife.
		More famously, when Pythagoras' disciple, Empedocles of Acragas, won the chariot race at Olympia in 496 BC, he refused to offer up the cus- tomary sacrifice of a...
		H E P H I L O S O P H E R A group of fifth-century philosophers, headed by Empedocles of Acragas in Sicily, returned to the pursuit of the eternal substance and proposed that there were...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Empedocles-of-Acragas (527 words)

	The Love and Strife Philosophy of Empedocles
		The ingenious combination of these views was Empedocles' major contribution to the dispute about the primordial element, which lasted almost as long as Greek philosophy itself.
		Empedocles came from a rich and illustrious family in Acragas at the south coast of Sicily.
		It is said that his grandfather won a victory in the horse-racing at the Olympic games of 496 BC.
	www.thebigview.com /greeks/empedocles.html (1283 words)

	Acragas Sicilien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Idet han an-vendte den samme taktik, som han havde brugt med succes ved Selinus og Ilimea, belejrede Hannibal (ikke at forveksle med den berømte general fra de Puniske Krige) byen, som blev kommanderet af Dexippus, en spartaner.
		Som i de tidligere slag kom en styrke af syracu-sanere, denne gang 35.000 mand kommanderet af Daphnaeus, til byens undsætning.
		Under Acragas mure fandt en træfning sted i hvilken karthagerne blev delvist slået.
	www.futura-dtp.dk /SLAG/SlagA/Acragas.htm (136 words)

	Agrigento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located at on a hill overlooking the sea.
		The town also has a notable archaeological museum displaying finds from the ancient city.
		"Acragas" The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agrigentum (1246 words)

	Tyrants Of Sicily - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		Phalaris of Acragas: Ruled Acragas from 570-554 BC.
		Interestingly enough, embracing Hellenistic adminstration and war waging gave him the ability to fight and defeat the Greeks in the east.
		And indeed, he did, campaigning unblemished until Syracuse and Acragas were able to defeat him in 451BC.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1904&st=0 (1929 words)

	EMPEDOCLES OF ACRAGAS
		Katharmoi (Purifications), addressed to his fellow-citizens of Acragas.
		Friends, who dwell in the great town on the city's heights, looking down on yellow Acragas, you who are occupied with good deeds, who are harbours
		The thickest blood is swallowed up by the fleshy parts; but if any is left over after passing through these parts, it becomes fine and warm and foamlike.
	www.macalester.edu /~cuffel/presoc.htm (2927 words)

	Empedocles of Acragas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		490-430 BC) flourished in the city of Acragas, Sicily.
		After fl rain you will bring dry weather in season for men, and too after summer dryness you will bring tree-nourishing showers (which live in air), and you will lead from Hades the life-force of a dead man.
		I tell you I travel up and down as an immortal god, mortal no longer, honoured by all as it seems, crowned with ribbons and fresh garlands.
	www.philosophy.gr /presocratics/empedocles.htm (4075 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Gelon - AOL Research & Learn
		From that time he ruled Syracuse and dominated Greek Sicily.
		In 480 B.C., Hamilcar and his Carthaginians attacked Sicily in great force, landing at Panormus and advancing to besiege Gelon's father-in-law, Theron of Acragas, in Himera.
		Gelon came to his aid and crushed the Carthaginian army, which was the first great blow to Punic prestige.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/gelon/20051206025209990020 (151 words)

	Acragas: mapa y datos
		Colonos procedentes de la ciudad griega de Gela (otra colonia griega del sur de Sicilia fundada por colonos de Rodas y Creta hacia el año 688 a.C.) fundaron Acragas en el año 582 a.C. Los primeros habitantes tuvieron que disputar la posesión de las tierras cercanas con los sicanos, pobladores autóctonos.
		La ciudad adquirió un desarrollo agrícola y comercial tan importante que llegó a enfrentar y vencer a Cartago en el año 480 a.C. Durante el Siglo de Pericles (siglo V a.C.) Acragas fue una de las principales ciudades griegas.
		Empédocles, uno de los principales filósofos presocráticos, nació en Acragas en el año 493 a.C. El pueblo de su ciudad natal llegó a ofrecerle la corona como recompensa por haberlos ayudado a librarse de la oligarquía gobernante, pero él no aceptó e instituyó la democracia.
	www.luventicus.org /articulos/03A019/acragas.html (331 words)

	Index of names: Ac
		314/6_ The inhabitants of Acragas summon Acrotatus the Spartan to be their
		280/18 Hicetas of Syracuse defeats Phintias of Acragas.
		314/6_ habitants of Acragas summon Acrotatus the Spartan to be their gener
	www.attalus.org /names/ac.html (2444 words)

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