Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero)
Family: Syracuse · Role: father of Gelon and Hiero · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 27
In Book 5, Chapter 27, Dinomenes is named as Gelon’s father. In Book 6, Chapter 13, he is named as Hiero’s father; at Croton, Astylus’s house was made a public prison and his statue removed after he entered as a Syracusan to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes.
Relationship record
Life events
- Astylus’s house became a public prison and his statue was removed after he entered as a Syracusan.(Book 6 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Croton)
- With: Astylus of Croton Hiero the son of Dinomenes
- “But because in the two latter Olympiads he entered himself as a Syracusan, to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes, the people of Croton voted that his house should be turned into a public prison, and removed his statue from the temple of Lacinian Hera.”
Book 5 · Chapter 27
- child: Gelon “Gelon the son of Dinomenes”
Book 6 · Chapter 13
- child: Hiero the son of Dinomenes (Dinomenes is Hiero's father.) “Hiero the son of Dinomenes”
Book 8 · Chapter 42
- child: Gelon “When Xerxes crossed into Europe Gelon the son of Dinomenes was ruler of Syracuse and the rest of Sicily”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.