-
colonists of
Magna Graecia in the 8th
century BC,
Messina was
originally called Zancle (Ancient Gr****: Ζάγκλη), from the Gr**** ζάγκλον
meaning "scythe" because...
-
father of Zanclus.
Diodorus writes of
Zanclus as the
supposed eponym of "
Zancle" (Ancient Gr****: Ζάγκλη, romanized: Zágklē) (the
ancient name for Messina)...
- have been a sub-colony of
Zancle (modern Messina), or a
joint venture between Rhegion (modern
Reggio Calabria) and
Zancle,
later falling under Locrian...
-
Scythes (Ancient Gr****: Σκύθης, Skýthi̱s) was
tyrant or
ruler of
Zancle,
Magna Graecia, in Sicily. He was
appointed to that post in
about 494 BC by Hippocrates...
- of the
Elamite Empire.
Traditional date of the
foundation of
Himera by
Zancle. E.J. Bickerman,
Chronology of the
Ancient World (Ithaca:
Cornell University...
- 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...
- in Chalcidice, Greece. Subsequently, they
founded the
colonies of ****ae,
Zancle,
Rhegium and Naxos. At the end of the 8th century,
Euboea fell into decline...
-
Alexandrian poet
Callimachus (c. 270 BC), Cronus's
sickle was
buried at
Zancle in Sicily,
saying that it was "hidden in a
hollow under the ground" there...
-
Sicels and
conquers the
Chalcidian cities of Callipoli, Leontini,
Naxos and
Zancle (now
known as Messina). He also
captures the
Syracusan city of Camarina...
