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Acragas

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Noun1.Acragas - a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coastAcragas - a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples
Agrigento
Sicilia, Sicily - the Italian region on the island of Sicily
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In the fifth century BC, Empedocles of Acragas, the Greek philosopher, proclaimed that the universe was composed of four primal elements: fire, air, water, and earth.
Alchemical calques or the transmutation of language by Schleifer, Rob / Verbatim
Phalaris, was a sixth-century BC tyrant of Acragas in Sicily, who became legendary for roasting his victims alive in a brazen bull.
The truths of a slippery world: poetry and tyranny in Sidney's Defence by Stillman, Robert E. / Renaissance Quarterly
14),(34) the original sources were two, both written from a partisan perspective: Fabius Pictor, representing the Roman side; and Philinus of Acragas, representing the Carthaginian side.
Bruni on writing history by Ianziti, Gary / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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