Gelo

Gelo in Wikipedia

Gelo (or Gelon, d. 478 BC, Greek: Γέλων; gen: Γέλωνος), son of Deinomenes, was a 5th century BC ruler of Gela and Syracuse and first of the Deinomenid rulers. Early life Gelo was the son of Deinomenes, a Sicilian tyrant king of Gela who was best known for conquering Catania on the east coast of Sicily. The historian Herodotus writes that his ances...

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Gelon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A native of Gela in Sicily, who rose from the station of a private citizen to be supreme ruler of Gela and Syracuse. He was descended from an ancient family, which originally came from Telos, an island off the coast of Caria, and settled at Gela, when it was first colonized by the Rhodians. During the time that Hippocrates reigned at Gela (B.C. 498...

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