Kleandros from Gela

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Kleandros († 498 BC) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city ​​of Gela in Sicily .

The son of a panther arrived at the end of the 6th century BC. BC, perhaps around 505 BC BC, to power. Together with his brother Hippocrates , who succeeded him, he fortified the heights north of the city. After seven years of his rule, he became 498 BC. Murdered BC.

literature

  • Moses I. Finley , Denis Mack Smith, Christopher Duggan: History of Sicily and the Sicilians. 2nd revised and bibliographically revised edition. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42056-7 ( Beck'sche series 1256).
personal data
SURNAME Kleandros from Gela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleandros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrant of Gela
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 498 BC Chr.