- The
oikistes (Gr****: οἰκιστής),
often anglicized as
oekist or oecist, was the
individual chosen by an
ancient Gr****
polis as the
leader of any new colonization...
- Ἀναξιδότου Πελλαῖος) was a quasi-mythological
Corinthian citizen and
founder (
oekist) of the
colony of
Syracuse in Sicily,
Magna Graecia.
Archias fell in love...
- The
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains a
reference to an ecist,
oekist or oikist,
defining him as: "the
founder of an
ancient Gr**** ... colony"...
- and by po****tion pressure. The
authenticity of the name of the
founder (
oekist) is
uncertain as
Strabo is the only
source and it
might be a corruption...
-
Aetna or Ætna,
after the
nearby Mount Etna, and
proclaimed himself the
Oekist or
founder of the new city. For this he was
celebrated by Pindar, and after...
- this was
speedily followed by that of Catana.
Theocles himself became the
Oekist, or
recognised founder, of the
former and Euarchus,
probably a Chalcidic...
- Catana. In
consequence of this they
continued to
regard Hieron as
their oekist or founder. The new name, however,
appears not to have been universally...
