Anaxilas

Anaxilas

Anaxilas or Anaxilaus (Gr. polytonic|Ἀναξίλας or polytonic|Ἀναξίλαος), son of Cretines, was a tyrant of Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria), and of Messenian origin.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Anaxilaus (4) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 164 | publisher = | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0173.html ] He was mas­ter of Rhegium in 494 BC, when he instigated the Samians and other Ionian fugitives to seize Zancle, a city across the strait in Sicily that was then under the rule of the tyrant Scythes. Shortly after the Samian takeover, Anaxilas besieged the city himself, drove the Samians out, peopled it with fresh inhabitants, and changed its name to Messina, after his native Messene. [Herodotus, vi. 22, 23] [Thucydides, vi. 4; compare Aristotle, "Politics" v. 10. § 4]

Pausanias tells a somewhat different story of this Anaxilas, that, after the second war with the Spartans, he assisted the refugees from Messana in the Peloponnese to take Zancle in Sicily.cite book | last = Bentley | first = Richard | authorlink = Richard Bentley | coauthors = Alexander Dyce (ed.) | title = The Works of Richard Bentley | publisher = Francis MacPherson | date = 1836 | location = London | pages = 205-223 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=DAoPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA208 | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

Anaxilas married Cydippe, daughter of Terillus, tyrant of Himera. In 480 BC he ob­tained the assistance of the Carthaginians for his father-in-law, who had been expelled from his city by Theron, tyrant of Agrigentum. [Herodotus, vii. 165] It was this auxiliary army that Gelo defeated at Himera. Anaxilas wanted to destroy the Locrians, but was prevented by Hiero I of Syracuse, as related by Epicharmus.cite book | last = Larcher | first = Pierre Henri | authorlink = Pierre Henri Larcher | coauthors = | title = Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the History of Herodotus | publisher = Whittaker & Co. | date = 1844 | location = London | pages = 315-323 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=8gIubwJJAC4C&pg=PA316 | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

The daughter of Anaxilas was married to Hiero. [Scholiast, "ad Pind. Pyth." i. 112] Anaxilaus died in 476 BC, leaving Micythus guardian of his children, who obtained possession of their inheritance in 467, but was soon after­wards deprived of the sovereignty by the people. [Diodorus Siculus, xi. 48, 66, 76]

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