GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675

GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675
GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675
GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675
GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675
GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675

GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675
Item: i72675 Authentic Ancient Coin of. Bronze Trias 17mm (4.74 grams) Struck circa 420-405 B. Reference: Jenkins, Gela 495; CNS 1; SNG ANS 105 Certification: NGC Ancients. AS, Bull standing left; three pellets below. Wheel with four spokes, barley grains between.

A city on the south coast of Sicily. On a river of the same name (Fiume di Terra Nuova), founded by Rhodians people of Rhodes. From Lindos and by Cretans people of Crete. It soon obtained great power and wealth ; and, in 582, it founded Agrigentum better known as Akragas.

, which, however, became more powerful than the mother city. North of Gela were the celebrated Campi Geloi, which produced rich crops of wheat. The city was destroyed by the Carthaginians people of Carthage. , a disaster from which it never fully recovered.

Then the city was destroyed by the Mamertini. The survivors moving to the newly-founded Phintias. Like other cities of Sicily, it was subject to tyrants, of whom the most important were Hippocrates, Gelon, and Hieron. Gelon transported half of its inhabitants to Syracuse.

The place gradually fell into decay, and in the time of Augustus. It was no longer inhabited. The poet Aeschylus died here. The city Gela in Sicily was founded around 688 BC by colonists from Rhodos (Rhodes) and Crete, 45 years after the founding of Syracuse.

The city was named after the river Gela. The Greeks had many colonies in the south of what is now Italy, and for many centuries the Greeks had a major influence on the area. Gela flourished and, after only a century, a group of Geloi founded the colony of Agrigento. The expansion, however, led to economic and social strains, which led the plebs to leave the city and settle in nearby Maktorion.

For over a century no further mention is made about the internal politics of the city, until the ancient historians note that a tyrant, Cleander, ruled Gela between 505 BC and 498 BC. After his death, power transferred to his brother Hippocrates, who conquered Callipoli, Leontini, Naxos, Hergetios and Zancles, the current Messina.

Only Syracuse, with the help of her former colonizing city, Corinth and Corcyra, managed to escape the Gelese expansion. When Camarina, a Syracusan colony, rebelled in 492 BC, Hippocrates intervened to wage war against Syracuse. After having defeated the Syracusan army at the Heloros river, he besieged the city. The tyrant lost his life in 491 in a battle against the Siculi, the native Sicilian people. Hippocrates was succeeded by Gelo, who, in 484, conquered Syracuse and moved his seat of government there.

His brother Hiero was given control over Gela. When Theron of Agrigento conquered Himera and a Carthaginian army disembarked in Sicily to counter him, he asked for help from Gela and Syracuse. Gelo and Hiero were victorious in the subsequent battle of Himera, in which the Carthaginian leader Hamilcar lost his life. After the death of Gelo (478 BC), Hiero moved to Syracuse, leaving Gela to Polyzelos. Thenceforth the history of the city becomes uncertain: it has been suggested that the citizens freed themselves from the rule of tyrants and established a democratic government.

Gela was at the head of the Sicilian league that pushed back the Athenian attempt to conquer the island in 424 (see Sicilian Expedition). In 406 the Carthaginians conquered Agrigento and destroyed it. Gela asked for the help of Dionysius I of Syracuse.

However, for unknown reasons, the latter did not arrive in time and, after heroic deeds, Gela was turned into ruins and its treasures sacked (405). The survivors took refuge in Syracuse. Under Agathocles (317-289 BC) the city suffered again for internal strife between the general population and the aristocrats.

When the Carthaginians arrived in 311 BC, they met little resistance and captured the city with the help of the aristoi. In 282 BC Phintias of Agrigento, who had founded a city next to the modern Licata, destroyed ruthlessly Gela to crush forever its power.

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GELA in SICILY Genuine Ancient 420BC Greek Coin BULL WHEEL NGC Certified i72675