Event
At the Congress of Gela, the statesman Hermocrates of Syracuse persuades the cities of Sicily to agree to make peace and urges the exclusion of foreign powers
424 BCE · 37.07° N, 14.24° E
What the records say
- When
- 424 BCE
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 37.07° N, 14.24° E
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Gela.
Summary
At the Congress of Gela, the statesman Hermocrates of Syracuse persuades the cities of Sicily to agree to make peace and urges the exclusion of foreign powers. As a result, the three-year war between his city and Sicily's pro-Athenian town ends and the Athenian forces, which had been sent to Sicily to support Greek settlements, are forced to withdraw.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Été : Congrès de Géla, qui réunit l’ensemble des belligérants siciliens”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page