Aenesidemus,_tyrant_of_Leontini

Aenesidemus, tyrant of Leontini

Aenesidemus, tyrant of Leontini

5th-century BC tyrant of Leontini, Sicily

Aenesidemus (Aenesidemos or Enesidemus), the son of Pataecus of Gela in Sicily, Magna Graecia, was made tyrant of Leontini in 498 BC by Hippocrates of Gela after aiding the latter in his effort to conquer southeastern Sicily. Aenesidemus likely continued to hold Leontini at least until the death of Hippocrates in 491 BC.[1]

The inclusion of Aenesidemus as a character in the ancient Greek novel The Wonders Beyond Thule by Antonius Diogenes provides the general fictive or dramatic date for these events.[2][3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    A History of Greece Part II by Evelyn Abbott, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892, pp. 436-439.
  2. [2]
    Collected Ancient Greek Novels edited by B.P. Reardon, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 779, fn. 6.
  3. [3]
    Smith, William (2005). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.
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