Anaxilas

Family: Rhegium · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1

Anaxilas was tyrant of Rhegium. Not long afterwards, he expelled the Samians and other Ionians from the town, recolonized it with a mixed population, and renamed it Messina after his old country.

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Life events

• Anaxilas expelled the Samians and other Ionians, recolonized the town, and renamed it Messina.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1 · 📍 Messina)
  • “and the Samians in their turn not long afterwards by Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, the town was by him colonized with a mixed population, and its name changed to Messina, after his old country.”

Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1

• with rhegium (Anaxilas was tyrant of Rhegium.) “Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium”
• with messina (Anaxilas colonized the town and renamed it Messina.) “the town was by him colonized with a mixed population, and its name changed to Messina, after his old country.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.