Gela
place · 3 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Geloans
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Sicilian city that hosts the congress of Sicilian cities seeking reconciliation, and whose armistice with Camarina prompts the wider conference.
and then all the rest of the Sicilians also assembled at Gela, with embassies from all the cities, and held a conference together on the subject of a reconciliation.
Just about a hundred and eight years after their own settlement, the Geloans settled Acragas, [or Agrigentum,] naming the city from the river Acragas:
Gela, again, was founded by Antiphemus from Rhodes, and Entimus from Crete, who led a common colony, in the forty-fifth year after the founding of Syracuse.
The Histories
Sicilian city ruled successively by Hippocrates, then Gelon, then Hiero, and partly depopulated in favor of Syracuse.
When he had defeated the men of Gela, however, he deposed the sons of Hippocrates and held sway himself.
When he had made Syracuse his own, he took less account of his rule over Gela, which he gave in charge to his brother Hiero;
Straightway that city grew and became great, for not only did Gelon bring all the people of Camarina to Syracuse and give them its citizenship, razing the township of Camarina, but he did the same thing to more than half of the townsmen of Gela, and when the Megarians in Sicily surrendered to him on terms after a siege, he took the wealthier of them, who had made war on him and expected to be put …
Hellenica
Sicilian city lost by Dionysius to the Carthaginians.
It was at the same time also that Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, was defeated in battle by the Carthaginians and lost Gela and Camarina.