-
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)...
-
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...
- have been a sub-colony of
Zancle (modern Messina), or a
joint venture between Rhegion (modern
Reggio Calabria) and
Zancle,
later falling under Locrian...
- was in Syracuse;
others grew up at Akragas, Selinunte, Gela,
Himera and
Zancle. The
native Sicani and
Sicel peoples became absorbed into the ****enic culture...
- 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...
- end of the
Calabrian peninsula. Soon after,
again the
Chalcidans founded Zancle (current Messina) on the
other side of the strait,
securing their dominion...
-
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...
