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Thrasydaeus (Ancient Greek: Θρασυδαῖος), tyrant of Agrigentum in Magna Graecia, was the son and successor of Theron. Already during his father's lifetime...

the time. Theron died in 473 BC and was briefly succeeded by his son Thrasydaeus, before he was defeated by Gelo's brother and successor, Hiero I. After...

and among them a man whom they mistook for Thrasydaeus, the leader of the democratic party. Thrasydaeus of Elis, however, who had fallen asleep under...

Megara Hyblaea and Licodia are destroyed by Gelon 483 Theron puts his son Thrasydaeus in charge of Himera as his vassal 481 Andros, Aegina and Akanthus among...

sources generally praise Theron as a good tyrant, but accuse his son Thrasydaeus, who succeeded him in 472 BC, of violence and oppression. Shortly after...

Hieron of Syracuse won the chariot racing (2nd Pythionicus). In 474 Thrasydaeus from Thebes won at the children's stadium (11th Pythionicus) and Telesikrates...

Conics. Apollonius further reports that Conon sent some of his work to Thrasydaeus, but that it was incorrect. Since this work has not survived it is impossible...

Telesicrates of Cyrene Foot-race in armour Apollo, Cyrene 474 Pythian 11 Thrasydaeus of Thebes Boys' short foot-race Orestes, Clytemnestra 474 (?) Nemean...

friend of the poet Simonides. Thorax and his brothers, Eurypylus and Thrasydaeus, wishing to confirm or to increase their power, were among those who...

the democratic leader Thrasydaeus. Xenias's partisans then gathered in the agora, but it was soon discovered that Thrasydaeus was in fact alive, asleep...

focused on Agrigentum, and left the government of Himera to his son Thrasydaeus. But the young man, by his violent and oppressive rule, soon alienated...

to Diodorus Siculus, Trasibulus (Hiero's successor in Syracuse) and Thrasydaeus of Akragas were "violent murderers". Their cruelty seems to have provoked...

century BC Alcandros (Alcander), 6th/5th century BC Theron, 488-472 BC Thrasydaeus, 472 BC (expelled and executed) Phintias, c. 288-279 BC Sosistratus,...

Xerxes invaded Greece, three sons of this Aleuas, Thorax, Eurypylus, and Thrasydaeus, came to him as ambassadors, to request him to go on with the war, and...

competitor and victor) and the beginning of the war between Theron's son Thrasydaeus and Hiero I of Syracuse (chariot victor in the 78th Olympiad), events...