Agrigento

Agrigento is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the web site of the ancient Greek metropolis of Akragas, one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia at some point of the golden age of Ancient Greece with population estimates inside the range of 200,000 to 800,000 earlier than 406 BC. Agrigento become based on a plateau overlooking the sea, with nearby rivers, the Hypsas and the Akragas, and a ridge to the north imparting a diploma of herbal fortification. Its status quo occurred around 582–580 BC and is attributed to Greek colonists from Gela, who named it "Akragas".

Akragas grew rapidly, becoming one of the richest and maximum well-known of the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia. It came to prominence underneath the sixth-century tyrants Phalaris and Theron, and have become a democracy after the overthrow of Theron's son Thrasydaeus. At this point the metropolis could have been as huge as 100,000 to 200,000 people. Although the town remained neutral in the battle between Athens and Syracuse, its democracy become overthrown when the town turned into sacked by means of the Carthaginians in 406 BC. Akragas by no means fully recovered its former status, although it revived to a point underneath Timoleon within the latter a part of the 4th century.