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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 16 | 16 | Browse | Search |
Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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478 B.C.When
Timosthenes was archon at Athens, in Rome Caeso
Fabius and Lucius Aemilius Mamercus succeeded to the consulship. During this year throughout
Sicily an almost complete peace pervaded the island,
the Carthaginians having finally been humbled, and Gelon had established a beneficent rule over
the Sicilian Greeks and was providing their cities with a high degree of orderly government and
an abundance of every necessity of life. And since the
Syracusans had by law put an end to costly funerals and done away with the expense which
customarily had been incurred for the dead, and there had been specified in the law even the
altogether inexpensive obsequies, King Gelon, desiring to foster and maintain the people's
interest in all matters, kept the law regarding burials intact in his own case; for when he fell ill and had given up hope of life, he handed over the
kingship to Hieron, his eldest brother, and respecting his own bu