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Definition of Acragas
1. Noun. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acragas
Literary usage of Acragas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"SYRACUSE AND acragas UNDER HIERON AND THERON rhe en- Theron and acragas had played
... Syracuse had sprung up a hill; acragas which was perched aloft on a ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1905)
"Such thoughts occur to one with indescribable intensity on such a memorable site
as this of old acragas. TEMPLE OF CASTOR AND POLLUX, GIRGENTI. ..."
3. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"Resemblance to Style of Nereid Monument. — Art in Southern Italy and Sicily.
— Patronage of Art by the Tyrants.— Temple-ruins at acragas. ..."
4. The History of Sicily to the Athenian War: With Elucidations of the Sicilian by William Watkiss Lloyd (1872)
"... OF acragas. (SIXTH PYTHIAN ODE.) THE sixth Pythian Ode is addressed to
Thrasybulus as a very young man, but it celebrates a victory in the Pythian ..."
5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Thucydides, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"18, xi;23, iv;47 fin.; inscription in, commemorating the oppression of the tyrants,
vi. 55 init. acragas, see Agrigentum. ..."
6. Atlas Antiquus: In Forty-eight Original, Graphic Maps, with Elaborate Text ...by Emil Reich by Emil Reich (1908)
"Opposed to him are Messana, Gela, acragas, which were allied with ... Syracusan
exiles in acragas start war against Agathocles ; Gela and Messana join them. ..."
7. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1902)
"Resembling this in many points is the Temple of acragas, or Agrigentum, termed
that of Heracles. (Fig. 149.) The great Temple of Zeus of the same city was ..."
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