colonists of Magna Graecia in the 8th century BC, Messina was originally called Zancle (Greek: Ζάγκλη), from the Greek ζάγκλον meaning "scythe" because of the...

father of Zanclus. Diodorus writes of Zanclus as the supposed eponym of "Zancle" (Ancient Greek: Ζάγκλη, romanized: Zágklē) (the ancient name for Messina)...

dependency of Zancle (modern Messina). All authorities agree that Himera was a colony of Zancle, but Thucydides tells us that the emigrants from Zancle mingled...

in Chalcidice, Greece. Subsequently, they founded the colonies of Cumae, Zancle, Rhegium and Naxos. At the end of the 8th century, Euboea fell into decline...

Schiffermüller, 1775 Synonyms Genus Acentropus J. Curtis, 1834 Setina Hübner, 1819 Zancle Stephens, 1833 Species Acentria nivea Acentria niveus Tinea ephemerella...

740 Zancle is founded by Euboeans 738 Alternative date for the end of the First Messenian War. 737 Rhegion and Zancle join in union under Zancle 735 Perdiccas...

Alexandrian poet Callimachus (c. 270 BC), Cronus' sickle was buried at Zancle in Sicily, saying that it was "hidden in a hollow under the ground" there...

Zanclean Stage was introduced by Giuseppe Seguenza in 1868. It is named after Zancle, the pre-Roman name for the Italian city of Messina on Sicily. The base...

was in Syracuse; others grew up at Akragas, Selinunte, Gela, Himera and Zancle. The native Sicani and Sicel peoples became absorbed into the Hellenic culture...

today's Giarre), Leontini (Lentini), Naxos (Sicily) (Giardini-Naxos) and Zancle (Messina). Only Syracuse, with the help of her former colonizing city Corinth...

Gela as its capital. He formed an alliance with Agrigento and conquered Zancle, Camarina, Catana, Naxos and Leontini. He also managed to besiege Syracuse...

eastern Sicily in the 8th century BC when the Chalcidian Greeks founded Zancle, Naxos, Leontinoi and Katane; in the south-east corner the Corinthians founded...

aimed at the Gulf of Naples (Pithecusae, Cumae) and the Strait of Messina (Zancle, Rhegium). Pithecusae on the island of Ischia is considered the oldest Greek...

Greek colonies were Naxos, Gela, Akragas, Selinunte, Himera, Kamarina and Zancle or Messene (modern-day Messina). These city-states became an important part...

of the Elamite Empire. Traditional date of the foundation of Himera by Zancle. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University...

name for the river that flowed from Mount Cadmus Cadmus of Kos, tyrant of Zancle, son of Scythes Cadmus, a city in Syria, more often transliterated as Qadmus...

Chalcidic citizen, of the latter. Strabo and Scymnus Chius both represent Zancle (modern Messina) also as a colony from Naxos, but no allusion to this is...

however, turned their attention elsewhere, and they ended with occupying Zancle itself. At a later period the project was resumed by the Sikel leader Ducetius...

Anaxilas, who reigned as tyrant from 494 to 476 BC. Anaxilas conquered Zancle (modern Messina), extending Rhegian control over both shores of the Straits...

mighty earth-works in Sicily. One tells how he aided Zanclus, the founder of Zancle (the former name for Messina), by building the promontory which forms the...

Sicels and conquers the Chalcidian cities of Callipoli, Leontini, Naxos and Zancle (now known as Messina). He also captures the Syracusan city of Camarina...

ancient Greek Mylae (Ancient Greek: Μύλαι) in Magna Graecia, an outpost of Zancle, occupied before 648 BC, perhaps as early as 716 BC. It was taken by the...

8th century BCE it was already strong enough to send Perieres to found Zancle in Sicily, and another group to found Tritaea in Achaea, Pausanias was told...

Stesichorus (630-555 BC) was born there. It was established by Greeks from Zancle and was occupied by Locri in the 6th c. BC. It was one of the smaller ancient...

BC, when he encouraged the Samians and other Ionian fugitives to seize Zancle, a city across the strait in Sicily which was then under the rule of the...

now under his control as tyrant included that of Gela, Naxos in the east, Zancle in the northeast, and Camarina in the south. Gelon ruled over Gela and his...

may refer to Great Zab or Little Zab Ζάγκλη Zánklē Ζάγκλη Zágkli zaˈɡli Zancle; Messina Ζάκυνθος Zákynthos Ζάκυνθος Zákynthos ˈzacinθos Zacynthus; Zakynthos;...

returned to rule them. They accepted an invitation from the people of Zancle to settle on the coast of Sicily, and took with them the Milesians who had...

many in present-day southern Italy — included Cyme; Rhegion by Chalcis and Zancle (c. 8th century); Syracuse by Corinth and Tenea (c. 734 BC); Naxos by Chalcis...

Zancle crossing the Strait of Messina...