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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

TYRANT of RHEGIUM in southern ITALY from 494 to 476 BCE (Diod. Sic. 11.48.2). Anaxilaus (or Anaxilas) appears in two contexts in the Histories. First, in his narrative winding down the unsuccessful IONIAN REVOLT, Herodotus tells how the Samians who fled Persian rule captured the Sicilian city of ZANCLE for themselves (494 BCE): they had originally aimed for CALEACTE (“Fair Point”) on the northern coast of SICILY at the invitation of the Zancleans, but Anaxilaus persuaded them instead to occupy Zancle—directly across the straits from Rhegium—whose inhabitants were away besieging a Sicel city (6.23). Anaxilaus renamed Zancle Messana (or Messene), after his ancestral homeland (MESSENIA in the PELOPONNESE), according to THUCYDIDES (6.4.6; cf. Paus. 4.23.6).

In his second appearance (Hdt. 7.165), Anaxilaus, who had married CYDIPPE the daughter of TERILLUS, tyrant of HIMERA, assists his father‐in‐law’s attempt to regain his tyranny. Terillus appeals to the Carthaginian general HAMILCAR, to whom he was tied by GUEST‐FRIENDSHIP. Anaxilaus offers Hamilcar even more: his own CHILDREN as HOSTAGES. Hamilcar’s massive invasion of Sicily ends in DISASTER, however, at the Battle of Himera in 480.

SEE ALSO: Carthage; Cretines (1); Micythus; Sicels