Late Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily Sculpture in the Age of the Tyrants

The two decades of Sicilian history between the mid 480s and the mid 460s BC belong to the Deinomenids of Gela and Syracuse and to the Emmenids of Acragas. The leaders of these two families were Gelon and Hieron, tyrants of Syracuse, and Theron, tyrant of Acragas. These years were an age of splendor in both capitals.