Gelon, Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela

Gelon, also known as Gelo, Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, died 478 BC. The first of the Deinomenid rulers, son of Deinomenes and brother of Hiero I. Head of a man wearing a royal diadem from a bronze medal. Gelone. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century 5th Century Bc Bronze Medal Classical Mythology Filososi Gela Giovanni Angelo Canini Greek Myth Guillaume Vallet Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman Myth Royal Diadem Syracuse

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