Thrasydaeus succeeded his father Theron as tyrant of Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [478-477] Reference

Then they sailed past the tall rock of Acragas and palm-loving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Syracuse and Acragas defeated the Sicels under Ducetius at the Battle of Noae.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. 450] Reference

Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, pursued a policy of extreme repression and ruthless expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [651 (Or 628)] Reference

Syracuse and Acragas fought over the division of territory from the former Sicel federation.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. 450] Reference

Gela founded Acragas in southwest Sicily, which became larger and wealthier than its metropolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [651 (Or 628)] Reference

The most important were Theron of Acragas (488–471) and Gelon of Gela, later of Syracuse (485–478).    From Wordnik.com.  [490] Reference

There is no reason to regard the physician Acron of Acragas as a Pythagorean, as Zhmud does (1997, 73).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pythagoreanism] Reference

In Sicily, Terillus, the tyrant of Himera, appealed to Carthage for help against Theron of Acragas and Gelon of Syracuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. The Rise of the Athenian Empire] Reference

Acragas (Agrigentum), so called from the river of that name, and made Aristonous and Pystilus their founders; giving their own institutions to the colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

We know that in Empedocles 'city, Acragas, Orphic ideas were current (Pindar, Ol. 2, 62-83) — ideas to which we may reasonably suppose that Empedocles subscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Empedliocles of Acragas and Heraclitus of Ephesus, believe that there is alternation in the destructive process, which takes now this direction, now that, and continues without end.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heavens] Reference

Acron's father's name was Xenon, and a Xenon appears in Iamblichus 'catalogue, but he is listed as from Locri and not Acragas, so again this is not good evidence that Acron was a Pythagorean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pythagoreanism] Reference

In antiquity, Empedocles (ca. 495-435 BCE) was characterized as active on the democratic side in the politics of his native city of Acragas in Sicily, and as a physician, as well as a philosopher and poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empedocles] Reference

Theon, tyrant of Acragas, Hiero succeeded him and defeated the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Empedocles of Acragas, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empedocles] Reference

The Pluralists: Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and Empedocles of Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

The same was the case with the numerous temples of Acragas (Girgenti) and Selinus in Sicily.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

In 406 came the turn of Acragas the richest city in the island; the year following Gela and Camarina fell into the hands of the Carthaginians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

During the sixth century B.C. it was chiefly Acragas, under the government of Phalaris (570-555), that upheld the prestige of Greece against Carthage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Near one hundred and eight years after the foundation of Gela, the Geloans founded Acragas (Agrigentum), so called from the river of that name, and made Aristonous and Pystilus their founders; giving their own institutions to the colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The ruins of Greek temples are to-day monochromatic, either glittering white, as is the temple at Sunium, or of a golden brown, as are the Parthenon and other buildings of Pentelic marble, or of a still warmer brown, as are the limestone temples of Paestum and Girgenti (Acragas).    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Her oeuvre includes nearly thirty books and numerous articles on a wide range of authors of philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic works, ranging from Empedocles (of Acragas in Sicily, c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Kofman.] Reference

A hundred and eight years after their own foundation the inhabitants of Gela founded Agrigentum (Acragas), which they named from the river Acragas; they appointed Aristonous and Pystilus founders of the place, and gave to it their own institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Theron, tyrant of Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 75] Reference

Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 60] Reference

Thrasydaeus, tyrant of Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 76] Reference

Acragas and Himera set up democracies.    From Wordnik.com.  [478-477] Reference

Acragas .... magnanimum quondam generator equorum, (Virg.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

Acragas; the Romans Agrigentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Acragas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 1] Reference

Acragas '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

Acragas fi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrina numorum veterum] Reference