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    Theron (Greek: Θήρων, gen.: Θήρωνος; died 473 BC), son of Aenesidemus, was a Greek tyrant of the town of Acragas in Sicily in Magna Graecia from 488 BC...
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  • to: Theron of Acragas (died 473 BC), 5th century BC tyrant of Acragas, Sicily Theron Akin (1855–1933), U.S. Representative from New York Theron Baldwin...
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  • mythical leader of a 554 BC general uprising in the Greek city-state of Acragas, Sicily, Magna Graecia, which culminated in the overthrow of the cruel tyrant...
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    to attend the Pythian Games of that year, where he first met the Sicilian prince, Thrasybulus, nephew of Theron of Acragas. Thrasybulus had driven the...
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    death, Hiero I of Syracuse (brother and successor of Gelon) invaded Acragas and overthrew Thrasydaeus. The literary sources say that Acragas then became...
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    Phalaris (category Year of birth unknown)
    himself master of the whole of the island. He was at last overthrown in a general uprising headed by Telemachus, the ancestor of Theron of Acragas (tyrant c...
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    Mythology". Retrieved 30 January 2015. "Pindar, Olympian, Olympian 2 For Theron of Acragas, Chariot Race, 476 B. C." Retrieved 30 January 2015. "P. Vergilius...
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  • 'For Theron of Acragas', is an ode by the 5th century BC Greek poet Pindar. Under Theron and his brother Xenocrates, Acragas, a Greek colony of Gela,...
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    Sybaris (category Achaean colonies of Magna Graecia)
    lead the campaign and took refuge with the tyrant Theron of Acragas. Diodorus makes no further mention of Hiero's plan to relieve Sybaris, indicating that...
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  • Theron of Acragas took control of most of Greek-speaking Sicily other than Selinunte and Messina (then controlled by Anaxilas of Reggio). Terillus of Himera...
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