Charondas
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Caronda, Antichissimo legislatore d'Italia, istituiva in questa sua città nel settimo secolo avanti Cristo il primo celebrato ginnasio condotto da uomini liberi a spese dello Stato. Poche leggi dava e molte norme di pubblico e privato costume alla Sicilia e alla Magna Grecia e santificandole con l'esempio meritava gloria immortale qual fondatore austerissimo di civiltà. (Charondas, an ancient Italian legislator, established in his city in the seventh century BC the first celebrated gymnasium ruled by free men using state expenses. He gave few laws and many rules about public and private custom both to Sicily and Magna Graecia and sanctifying them by example he deserved immortal glory as a most austere founder of civilization.) |
| Epigraph by Mario Rapisardi at the entrance of the Roman Amphitheatre of Catania. |
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Notes
- ^ Peck, Harry Thurston (1898). Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 948 cites Politics, ii. 12.; Aristotle, Politics. IV, 7.
- ^ Plato, Republic, Book X, 598-599
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 948 cites Diod. Sic. xii. 11-19.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 948.
- ^ Lacey 1968, p. 225.
References
- Lacey, W. K. (1968). The Family in Classical Greece. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801492747.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Charondas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 948. Endnotes:
- R. Bentley, On Phalaris, which (according to Benedikt Niese s.v. in Pauly, Realencyclopädie) contains what is even now the best account of Charondas
- A. Holm, Geschichte Siciliens, i.
- F. D. Gerlach, Zaleukos, Charondas, und Pythagoras (1858)
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