Deinomenes
Deinomenes was the father of Hieron I, Gelo (or Gelon), Thrasyboulos, and Polyzalus. The historian Herodotus writes that his ancestors came from the island of Telos in the Aegean Sea and were the founders of the city of Gela in southern Sicily, Magna Graecia. One of his ancestors, Telines, was made 'high priest of the gods who dwell below', a role which carried on through his descendants.
Deinomenes
Carlo Filiberto Pizolanti · Delle memorie istoriche dell'antica città di Gela nella Sicilia · Public domain
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Deinomenes was the father of Hieron I, Gelo (or Gelon), Thrasyboulos, and Polyzalus. The historian Herodotus writes that his ancestors came from the island of Telos in the Aegean Sea and were the founders of the city of Gela in southern Sicily, Magna Graecia. One of his ancestors, Telines, was made 'high priest of the gods who dwell below', a role which carried on through his descendants.
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Deinomenes consulted the Delphic oracle about the fates of his children, and was told that Gelo, Hieron and Thrasyboulos were all destined, to their sorrow, to become tyrants.
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Deinomenes died at Gela.
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- 1.Estimación de Molly Miller.
- 2.Heródoto, Historias, 7 145, 2.
- 3.The Sicilian Colony Dates.
- 4.Se trata de Deméter y Perséfone.
- 5.Heródoto, 7 153.
- 6.Apolo, el dios que respondía a través de la Pitia en el oráculo de Delfos.
- 7.Plutarco. Moralia, Porqué la Pitia no da oráculos en verso.
- 8.Según algunos historiadores modernos, este descendiente se llamaba Dinómenes
- 9.William. Smith. William Smith (lexicógrafo). Telines (1). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Little, Brown and co. Boston. 1867. en. 15 de octubre de 2023.
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