Agrigento Timeline

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c. 580 BCE
Agrigento in Sicily is founded by colonists from Gela, Crete and Rhodes.
c. 570 BCE - c. 549 BCE
The tyrant Phalaris rules Agrigento, expanding its territory.
c. 510 BCE
The temple of Hercules is built at Agrigento.
492 BCE - 432 BCE
Life of the philosopher Empidocles of Agrigento.
c. 489 BCE - c. 473 BCE
The tyrant Theron rules Agrigento.
480 BCE
Agrigento defeats Carthage at the battle of Himera.
c. 480 BCE
The huge temple of Zeus is built at Agrigento.
450 BCE - 430 BCE
The Temple of Concordia is built at Agrigento.
c. 430 BCE
The temple of Hephaistos is built at Agrigento.
413 BCE
Agrigento remains neutral in the war between Athens and Syracuse.
406 BCE
Agrigento is attacked and destroyed by Carthage.
400 BCE - 390 BCE
A sanctuary to Asclepius is built at Agrigento.
282 BCE
Gela, on Sicily, is destroyed by Phintias, the tyrant of Agrigento.
262 BCE
Rome besieges and sacks Agrigento on Sicily in one of the first actions of the First Punic War.
210 BCE
Rome attacks Agrigento.