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  Leontini
Later on Leontini regained its independence, but in its efforts to retain it, the intervention of Athens was more than once invoked.
It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427.
This led to renewed Athenian intervention, at first mainly diplomatic; but the exiles of Leontini joined the envoys of Segesta, in persuading Athens to undertake the great expedition of 415.
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  Lentini Urbs Nobilissima - history
In the myth of the fields leontini also finds Ercole to place, head of the carbolic ones, that, after having killed Erice and founded Mozia, it was moved to east of the Trinacria recalled from the myth of Cerere, to which sacrificed a bull in the you press some source of the Ciane.
Attached and occupied by Ippocrate of it Freezes in the 494 a.C., Leontini loses independence and it is forced to enter in a military alliance, first under the control of it Freezes (that it installs you Enesidemo), and then of Syracuse, that transforms it in a military fortress for the control of the territory.
The territory is englobed in the chora in Syracuse and Leontini it stays deprived of inhabitants, except the servile workers to the dependences of the aristocrats.
www.lentinionline.it /inglese/lentini_storia.htm   (7729 words)

  
 Leontini - LoveToKnow 1911
Later on Leontini regained its independence, but in its efforts to retain it, the intervention of Athens was more than once invoked.
It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427.
This led to renewed Athenian intervention, at first mainly diplomatic; but the exiles of Leontini joined the envoys of Segesta in persuading Athens to undertake the great expedition of 415.
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Leontini regained its independence around 466 after the death of Thrasybulus and the end of the Deinomenid dynasty in Syracuse.
(424), civil strife in Leontini between aristocratic and democratic factions led to the intervention of Syracuse in support of the aristocrats.
Eventually the aristocrats in Syracuse become dissatisfied, return to Leontini, ally themselves with the democrats, and carry on war against Syracuse.
mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /thucydides_lecture/leontini.htm   (268 words)

  
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It has been argued that the treaties are renewal of earlier oaths sworn in the 450s or 440s B.C. This is unlikely given the letter forms and the text of the treaties.
The best explanation is that delegates of Leontini and Rhegium arrived in the summer of 433 B.C., at the end of archon year 434/3 B.C., and due to a delay the treaties were ratified weeks later in the same summer.
Athenian alliances with the strategic Ionian cities of Rhegium in Italy and Leontini in Sicily must have been regarded as a hostile action against Syracuse, the leading colony and friend of Corinth in the West.
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 Leontini
It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427 BC.
Excavations were made in 1899 in one of the ravines in a Sicel necropolis of the third period--explorations in the various Greek cemeteries resulted in the discovery of some fine bronzes, notably a fine bronze lebes, now in the Berlin museum.
Gorgias (in Greek Γοργἰας, circa 483-375 BC), Greek sophist, philosopher, and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini.
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 Leontini - Wikipedia
Leontini (Grieks Λεοντίνοι, het huidige Lentini), was een stad in de oudheid in het zuidoosten van Sicilië, hemelsbreed 35 km NNW van Syracuse.
Later herwon Leontini haar onafhankelijkheid, maar moest daarbij verschillende malen een beroep op Athene doen.
Het was vooral op voorspraak van Grogias van Leontini dat er in 427 v.
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 Take a BrainSip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427 BC.
This led to renewed Athenian intervention, at first mainly diplomatic; but the exiles of Leontini joined the envoys of Segesta, in persuading Athens to undertake the great Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC.
Its independence was guaranteed by the treaty of 405 BC between Dionysius and the Carthaginians, but it very soon lost it again.
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 Ancient coins of Sicily
Leontini (Lentini) was an inland town about twenty miles north-west of Syracuse.
The tetradrachms where the lion (not the lion of Leontini) appears as a symbol in the exergue, show affinities with the Demareteion of Syra- cuse (q.v.).
After passing successively under the dominion of Gelon and of Hieron, Leontini regained its independence in B.C. 466, and, like the rest of the Sicilian cities, enjoyed an interval of repose and prosperity until B.C. when it became engaged in a struggle with Syracuse, which ended, circ.
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 LEONTINI (mod. Lentini) - Online Information article about LEONTINI (mod. Lentini)
Lentini) - Online Information article about LEONTINI (mod.
Gorgias (q.v.) of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427.
people and received them as citizens, Leontini itself being forsaken.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LEONTINI_mod_Lentini_.html   (1079 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicily
The inhabitants of Catania and Naxos had to migrate to Leontini, and a Doric colony was established at Catania.
For the election of bishops, at least in the sixth century, the pope was accustomed to appoint a visitor, who was charged with the administration during the vacancy, and presided at the election, which was afterwards confirmed by the pope, when the bishop-elect presented himself for ordination.
Gregory, and probably down to the eighth century, the Roman Rite was observed in the island, and the liturgical language was Latin.
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 Lentini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leontini was reduced to subject status in 498 BC by Hippocrates of Gela, and in 476 BC Hieron of Syracuse moved the inhabitants from Catana and Naxos to Leontini.
In 422 BC Syracuse supported the oligarchs against the people and received the oligarchs as citizens, Leontini itself being forsaken.
Its independence was guaranteed by the treaty of 405 BC between Dionysius and the Carthaginians, but shortly after lost its independence again.
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 Gorgias of Leontini - Exalead Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Greek sophist, philosopher, and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily.
It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian...
Gorgias of Leontini was his student, and it is probably from...
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 Lentini - Storia
Attaccata ed occupata da Ippocrate di Gela nel 494 a.C., Leontini perde l'indipendenza e viene costretta ad entrare in un'alleanza militare, prima sotto il controllo di Gela (che vi insedia Enesidemo), e poi di Siracusa, che la trasforma in una piazzaforte militare per il controllo del territorio.
Leontini, abbandonata dai congiurati, diventa poco dopo la base delle operazioni dei filocartaginesi, espulsi da Siracusa.
La risposta sprezzante dei Leontini, che sperano nell'aiuto di Annibale che in Italia sta portando un duro attacco alle forze romane, provoca l'intervento armato dei Romani.
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 History 310: Athenian Treaties 433/2
ATHENIAN TREATIES WITH RHEGIUM AND LEONTINI, 433/2 B.C..
The envoys from Leontini by whom the alliance was concluded and who took the oath: Timenor, son of Agathocles, Sosis, son of Glaucias, Gellon, son of Execestus, with the secretary being Theotimus, son of Tauriscus.
The Leontinians likewise shall swear: “As allies we shall be forever to the Athenians guileless and reliable.
www.tulane.edu /~august/H310/readings/Athenian_Treaties.htm   (558 words)

  
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Gorgias was born in Leontini of Sicily around 483 and died in 375 B.C., as we mentioned in connection with Empedocles.
When he already established himself as a polished, eloquent speaker, he was chosen by his native city state, Leontini, to seek the military support for his native state against the threat of Syracuse.
Later a revolution (coup d'etat) took placed in Leontini and Gorgias was forced to take refuge to Eastern Greece as a teacher of eloquence or rhetoric and visited Athens several times as well.He was supposed to have written a book on Optics.
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 Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Five years later, Leontini, further to the south of Syracuse, completed the Greek around the Catanian plain.
Naxos and Leontini, and later Catania, dominated the Catania plain.
Naxos was conquered by Hieron of Syracuse, and the inhabitants exiled to Leontini and Catania, to the south.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/sicily.htm   (1113 words)

  
 Royal Family of Syracuse (Hieronymos)
Hippokrates and Epikydes escaped and Marcellus had 2000 Carthaginian sympathizers in Leontini beaten and beheaded.
The fall of Leontini and Marcellus's brutal reprisals hardened the Syracusan resolve.
Here the men who had plotted to kill him -- they were all serving with the forces -- took possession of an empty house overlooking a narrow street by which the king used to go down to the forum.
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 Gorgias :: G : Gourt
Gorgias (in Greek Γοργίας, circa 483-375 BC), Greek sophist, philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily.
Gorgias of Leontini - Minutes from a philosophy class discussion of this classical thinker.
Rhetoricians: Gorgias of Leontini - Notes on the rhetorical figures ascribed to Gorgias.
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 Gorgias Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gorgias son of Charmantides of Leontini in Sicily was a
He is reported to have been in Delphi,Olympia, and Athens, on various occasions: a statue in honor of himwas set up in Olympia, and he dedicated a statue to himself inDelphi.
Taking thoughts inthis way, the third thesis might be taken to say that any putativethought about any putative thing cannot be communicated to someoneelse because the things lie outside of both their thought andsignification.
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 Lentini - Wikipedia
Lentini (auch Leontini, griechisch Leontinoi) ist eine Stadt der Provinz Syrakus in der Region Sizilien in Italien.
Später erlangte Leontini seine Unabhängigkeit zurück, musste aber in seinen Bemühungen, sie zu verteidigen, immer häufiger auf die Unterstützung Athens zurückgreifen.
Nach deren Fehlschlag wurde Leontini einmal mehr Untertan von Syrakus (vgl.
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 Empedocles - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Empedocles was also a mystic and a poet, and some consider him the inventor of the study of rhetoric.
Gorgias of Leontini was his student, and it is probably from Empedocles that Gorgias developed the notion of rhetoric as magic.
As a person he was somewhat arrogant, dressing himself in purple and claiming that by the virtue of the knowledge he possessed he had become divine and could perform miracles.
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Da Panezio di Leontini alla caduta dei Dinomenidi.
Luraghi starts with some remarks on the tyranny of Panaetius of Leontini and tries to draw conclusions from a notice in Polyaenus (5,47) about social conflicts in this polis which Panaetius had created.
So his interpretation of the heniochoi of Leontini as "un gruppo subalterno agli hippeis", whose clients they could have been (17-18), is not more than a speculation.
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 CoinArchives.com Search Results
Greek Coins Leontini No.: 73 Estimate: CHF 3500 d=27 mm Tetradrachm circa 475, AR 17.40 g.
Greek Coins Leontini No.: 74 Estimate: CHF 6500 d=28 mm Tetradrachm circa 450, AR 17.32 g.
ANCIENT COINS Greek No.: 1203 Estimate: £ 400.- Sicily, Leontini c.466-425 BC, Tetradrachm 16.6g, laureate head of Apollo right, hair held up off back of neck, wisps hanging down at sides, rev LEO-N-T-I-NO-N around head of lion right with open mouth and lolling tongue, four...
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 427 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The civil war in Corcyra, in which the Athenians and the Spartans have interfered ineffectually, results in a victory of the democrats (who support an alliance with Athens) over the oligarchs.
In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician.
Leontini is being threatened by Syracuse which is allied to Sparta.
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 Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Gela
These last were scattered in various directions; but the upper classes came to an agreement with the Syracusans, abandoned and laid waste their city, and went and lived at Syracuse, where they were made citizens.
Afterwards some of them were dissatisfied, and leaving Syracuse occupied Phocaeae, a quarter of the town of Leontini, and Bricinniae, a strong place in the Leontine country, and being there joined by most of the exiled commons carried on war from the fortifications.
The Athenians hearing this, sent Phaeax to see if they could not by some means so convince their allies there and the rest of the Sicilians of the ambitious designs of Syracuse as to induce them to form a general coalition against her, and thus save the commons of Leontini.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Syracuse was founded the year afterwards by Archias, one of the Heraclids from Corinth, who began by driving out the Sicels from the island upon which the inner city now stands, though it is no longer surrounded by water: in process of time the outer town also was taken within the walls and became populous.
Besides Naxos and Catana, which I expect to join us from their connection with Leontini, there are seven others armed at all points just like our own power, particularly Selinus and Syracuse, the chief objects of our expedition.
Lamachus, on the other hand, said that they ought to sail straight to Syracuse, and fight their battle at once under the walls of the town while the people were still unprepared, and the panic at its height.
classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.6.sixth.html   (6540 words)

  
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Francesco Donadi, Gorgiae Leontini in Helenam laudatio (Rome: Bretschneider, 1983).
B.C.E. Gorgias's birth (Leontini, Sicily) 469 Socrates's birth 436 Isocrates's birth 427 Gorgias arrives in Athens Plato's birth 414?
Engnell, Richard A. "Implications for Communication of the Rhetorical Epistemology of Gorgias of Leontini." Western Speech Communication Journal 37 (1973): 175-84.
www.missouri.edu /~engjnc/rhetoric/gorgias.html   (1117 words)

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