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ALESSA (Ancient city) SICILY
Archonides, the leader of Herbite, after the citizen-body of the Herbitaeans had concluded peace with Dionysius, determined to found a city. For he had not only many mercenaries but also a mixed throng who had streamed into the city in connection with the war against Dionysius; and many of the destitute among the Herbitaeans had promised him to join in the colony. Consequently, taking the multitude of refugees, he occupied a hill lying eight stades from the sea, on which he founded the city of Halaesa; and since there were other cities of Sicily with the same name, he called it Halaesa Archonidion after himself (Diod. 14.16.1-2).
IMERA (Ancient city) SICILY
Himera was founded from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, and Sacon, most of those who went to the colony being Chalcidians; though they were joined by some exiles from Syracuse, defeated in a civil war, called the Myletidae. The language was a mixture of Chalcidian and Doric, but the institutions which prevailed were the Chalcidian.
City of northern Sicily.
The city was founded around 625 by settlers coming from Zancle
and banished citizens from Syracuse.
Around 489, Terillus, tyrant of Himera, was ousted by Theron, tyrant of Acragas.
As a result, he called for help upon the Carthaginians, who had long had settlements
on the western shores of Sicily.
With the help of Anaxilaos, tyrant of Reggio,
his son-in-law, he assembled a huge army under the leadership of Amilcar, king
of Carthage. But, in 480, they were defeated in the battle of Himera by Theron,
who had received help from Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse.
The tradition has it that the battle took place on the very same day
as the battle of Salamis, as
if to suggest that the Greek world was saved from “barbarians” from
the east (the Persians) and west (the Carthaginians) on that day. It is worth
noticing that the Carthaginians were of Phoenician origin and that most of the
fleet that was defeated at Salamis
was made up of Phoenician contingents in the Persian army (Persia
irtself was not a country of sailors and had to hire or enroll mercenaries for
subjected countries to staff its fleet).
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
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