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Hippocrates, Tyrant of Gela, -491 B.C

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Personal name headingHippocrates, Tyrant of Gela, -491 B.C.
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Variant(s)Ippocrate, Tyrant of Gela, -491 B.C.
Hippokrates, Tyrant of Gela, -491 B.C.
Associated placeGela (Italy)
Death date-0490
Found inIl tiranno e il dinasta : Gela da Ippocrate a Gelone, 2016: p. 32 (Ippocrate: lost his life in revolt against the Siculi, approximately 491 B.C.)
Oxford classical dictionary (online): (Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela: Succeeded his brother Cleander (assassinated c.498 bce) as tyrant of Gela ... Hippocrates was killed (491) near Hybla by the Sicels)
Britannica (online): entry under Gelon, Tyrant of Gela and Syracuse (On the death of Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, in 491, Gelon, who had been his cavalry commander, succeeded him)
Princeton encyc. of classic. sites (online): entry under Monte San Mauro Sicily (Gela's tyrant Hippokrates)