Gelo
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Gelo king of Syracuse · Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse · the tyrant Gelo
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Tyrant of Syracuse who expelled the Megarian Hyblaeans and depopulated Camarina.
And having again been depopulated by Gelo, it was settled for the third time by the Geloans.
After inhabiting it two hundred and forty—five years, they were expelled from the city and country by Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse.
At the very commencement of the spring of the next summer, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and coasted along towards the Sicilian Megara, from which the Syracusans, in the time of their tyrant Gelo, (as I have before mentioned,) drove out the inhabitants, and themselves continue to occupy the territory.
On the Nature of the Gods
Tyrant of Syracuse who dedicated a golden cloak to the statue of Olympian Jove from Carthaginian spoils.
When he had brought his fleet to the Peloponnese and had come into the shrine of Olympian Jove, he took off from him a golden cloak of great weight, with which the tyrant Gelo had adorned Jove out of the spoils of the Carthaginians, and even jested over it, that a golden cloak was heavy in summer and cold in winter, and threw over him a woollen mantle, saying that this was fit for every season of the year.
The Rights of War and Peace
King of Syracuse praised for refusing human sacrifice.
And no less impious is the supposed homage, that is paid to God with the blood of innocent human victims, and Darius king of the Persians, and Gelo king of Syracuse, are commended for abstaining from such practices.