Zancle
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Messana
in the texts
The Histories
Sicilian city seized by the Samians while its men were away besieging a neighboring town, and betrayed to them by Hippocrates.
Without trouble the Samians planted themselves in that most excellent city of Zancle, after they had escaped from the Medes.
Learning this, Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium, being then in a feud with the Zanclaeans, joined forces with the Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle while it was deserted by its men.
The people of Zancle in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Sicilian city founded from Cuma by freebooters, later resettled by Samians and Ionians and renamed Messana by Anaxilas.
Zancle, again, was originally founded from Cuma, the Chalcidian city in the country of the Opici, by some freebooters who went there;
and again, Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, having not long after expelled the Samians, and colonized their country with a mixed population, changed its name to Messana, after his own original country.