- 1863, the town
changed its name into
Porto Empedocle in
memory of the
Agrigentine philosopher Empedocles. In 2003, the town
changed its
official denomination...
-
Following the
suggestion of
Andrea Camilleri, a
Sicilian writer of
Agrigentine origin, the
historic city
centre was
renamed to the
Sicilian name "Girgenti"...
- (on his father's suggestion) a shy,
withdrawn girl of a good
family of
Agrigentine origin educated by the nuns of San Vincenzo:
Maria Antonietta Portulano...
- Sicily,
Cicero found what was
presumed to be Archimedes' tomb near the
Agrigentine gate in Syracuse, in a
neglected condition and
overgrown with bushes...
-
dedication of an
ivory palladium as
spoils from an
undated victory of the
Agrigentines over Minoa. The
territory of
Heraclea Minoa fell
under Carthaginian control...
- Great, and Himilco, son of
Hanno the Great, set out at dawn, and took Agrigentum; and they [the
Agrigentines] surrendered,
including those who had fled....
- he
elsewhere includes the Himeraeans, as well as the
Selinuntines and
Agrigentines,
among the
exiled citizens that were
allowed by the treaty, concluded...
-
Regione Siciliana, p. 89
Polybius is the only
author who
mentions the
Agrigentine Hypsas by name, and he
states distinctly that it was the
river flowing...
-
against Hiero, but was
defeated after a
stubborn and
bloody struggle. The
Agrigentines immediately took
advantage of this
disaster to
expel him from
their city...
-
after a
battle in
which he
defeated the
Agrigentines and
their allies; but was
recovered by the
Agrigentines in the
course of the
following summer. (Diod...
