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Phintias, tyrant of Acragas, 3rd c. B.C.

At ca. 284 B.C. Phintias, the tyrant of Akragas, destroyed Gela and removed its inhabitants to the new city he had named after himself.

   Phintias. A tyrant of Agrigentum, who established his power over that city during the period of confusion which followed the death of Agathocles (B.C. 289). He founded a new city on the southern coast of Sicily, to which he gave his own name, and whither he removed all the inhabitants from Gela, which he razed to the ground.

This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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