Gelon
Family: Syracuse · Role: ruler · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 27
Life events
- Phormis rose to great fortune after serving in Gelon and Hiero’s armies.(Book 5 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Sicily)
- With: Phormis Hiero the son of Dinomenes
- “who crossed over from Mænalus to Sicily to Gelon the son of Dinomenes, and in the army of Gelon, and afterwards in the army of Gelon’s brother Hiero, displayed great valour, and advanced to such a pitch of fortune”
- Gelon and the Syracusans defeated the Phoenicians on land or sea.(Book 6 · Chapter 19)
- “presented by Gelon and the Syracusans who beat the Phœnicians either on land or sea.”
- After Gelon dies, the kingdom devolves upon his brother Hiero.(Book 8 · Chapter 42 · 📍 Syracuse)
- With: Hiero the son of Dinomenes
- “and after his death the kingdom devolved upon his brother Hiero”
Book 5 · Chapter 27
- siblings with Hiero the son of Dinomenes “in the army of Gelon, and afterwards in the army of Gelon’s brother Hiero”
- with Phormis (Phormis served in Gelon's army.) “who crossed over from Mænalus to Sicily to Gelon the son of Dinomenes, and in the army of Gelon”
- parent: Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero) “Gelon the son of Dinomenes”
Book 6 · Chapter 19
- with Zeus (Gelon is named as one of the presenters of the votive offerings.) “And the votive offerings in it are a huge Zeus and three linen breastplates, presented by Gelon and the Syracusans who beat the Phœnicians either on land or sea.”
Book 8 · Chapter 42
- parent: Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero) “When Xerxes crossed into Europe Gelon the son of Dinomenes was ruler of Syracuse and the rest of Sicily”
- siblings with Hiero the son of Dinomenes “and after his death the kingdom devolved upon his brother Hiero”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.