#house of agathocles

[gardenofkore]

The House of Hiero II of Syracuse (IV-III century BC)

check here for the Women of the House of Hiero II of Syracuse

check here for the related Epirote branch of the House of Agathocles of Syracuse (III century BC)

[cardest]

Washington DC and the Baltimore playlist

DC Sound Attack! Well, if Biden is waiting in the wings to move in to the White House and well, gets a bit bored or just has some spare time, he can totally tune in to my Washington DC playlist! And Baltimore! Maybe he and the new VP can grab a crab cake from Lexington Market! Anyway, what a town DC is, the bands, the songs, the TV shows and who can forget the Exorcist? So I just had to put a list of songs together from DC, from Virginia, Baltimore and surrounds. You may have see my Philadelphia playlist added a few days ago below. I wonder what Ian Mackaye would think of this list

WASHINGTON D.C 001 Clutch - D.C. Sound Attack! 002 Foo Fighters - The Feast and the Famine 003 Rollins Band - Change It Up 004 NCIS-Theme Song 005 Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 006 Prong - Banned In Dc 007 Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) 008 Fugazi - Bulldog Front 009 KMFDM - Stars and Stripes 010 Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption 011 Vlado Kreslin in Hans Theessink - Bourgeois blues 012 TROUBLE FUNK  - Spin Time 013 Ministry - Ass Clown 014 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 015 X Files - Theme Song 016 Clutch - How To Shake Hands 017 The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia 018 Pig Destroyer - The Adventures of Jason and JR 019 Experience Unlimited - Da Butt 020 The Evens - Dinner With The President 021 Steppenwolf - Draft Resister 022 The Blackbyrds - Blackbyrds Theme 023 Oneness of Juju - African Rhythms 024 Pontiak - Ignorance Makes Me High 025 Ex Hex - Rainbow Shiner 026 Parliament Chocolate City 027 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett 028 Staple Singers - Washington, We're Watching You 029 The Razz - You Can Run (But You Cant Hide) 030 Criminal Minds TV theme bits 031 Clutch -  White's Ferry 032 Incredible Bongo Band -  Apache 033 Jimmy Newman - Washington, DC 034 CHUCK BROWN & THE SOUL SEARCHERS  - BUSTIN LOOSE 035 Weird Al Yankovic - Party In The CIA 036 Overkill - King Of The Rat Bastards 037 CANNABIS CORPSE - Zero Weed Tolerance 038 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove 039 the coup - piss on your grave 040 Primus -  Electric Uncle Sam 041 Pocahontas OST - The Virginia Company 042 OFF! - Elimination 043 THE HONEY DRIPPERS - Impeach The President 044 Roy Ayers - D.C. City 045 Chain & the Gang - The logic of night 046 Pentagram - Walk Alone 047 Duke Ellington - Caravan 048 Clutch - Son of Virginia 049 The Messthetics - Serpent Tongue 050 House of Cards - Main Title Theme 051 Windhand - Old Evil 052 While Heaven Wept - Hour Of Reprisal 053 Genocide Pact - Induction 054 Nation of Ulysses ~ You're my Miss Washington D.C. 055 Minor Threat - Betray 056 ILSA - Cult Of The Throne 057 Stop the World-The Clash 058 The Dismemberment Plan - The City 059 Les Baxter - The City 060 America - Old Virginia 061 Talking Heads - Don't Worry About The Government 062 Gwar - The Reaganator 063 Junk Yard Band - Loose Booty 064 Chicago - State of the Union 065 Clutch - I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth 066 Carol Leon -  Washington, DC song 067 Rollins Band - Icon 068 COUGH - Crippled Wizard 069 The Magnetic Fields - Washington D.C. 070 Washington DC's new State Song, John Oliver 071 Alice In Chains - Never Fade 072 Animals as Leaders - Another Year 073 Deceased - Mrs. Allardyce 074 Tru Fax and The Insaniacs - Love Love Love 075 the hidden hand - someday soon 076 Sourvein - D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. 077 Pig Destroyer - Alexandria 078 Drugs of Faith - The False War 079 Ex Hex - Diamond Drive 080 The Exorcist OST - Main Theme Tubular Bells 081 the slickee boys - gotta tell me why 082 Ministry - The Dick Song 083 Egg Hunt - We All Fall Down 084 Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb 085 Q and Not U - End The Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight 086 Foo Fighters - Arlandria 087 Die Cheerleader - Washington D.C. 088 The Jesus Lizard - Queen For A Day 089 King Giant - The One That God Forgot To Save 090 Gil Scott Heron - Washington D.C 091 Unrest  - Bavarian Mods 092 Rites of Spring - For Want Of 093 American Dad! TV show theme 094 Readeez Presents The U.S. Presidents Song 095 Darkest Hour - No God 096 Fugazi - Facet Squared 097 Rollins Band - Wreck-Age 098 R E M - Don't Go Back To Rockville 099 Dag Nasty - Trying 100 Bad Brains - Rise 101 Municipal Waste - Masked by Delirium 102 Escape-ism - Bodysnatcher 103 Tilt - Arkade Funk 104 Nonchalant - 5 O'Clock 105 Jawbox - Savory 106 The Staple Singers - Long Walk To D.C. 107 Teen Idles - Fleeting Fury 108 Burnt by the Sun - Washington Tube Steak 109 Chain and the Gnag - [Ive Got] Privilege 110 Priests-  Ice Cream 111 Lamb of God - Checkmate 112 Lonnie Liston Smith - Sunburst 113 DEVO - Secret Agent Man 114 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle 115 Butch Willis - Flashback 200 William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got 222 Peabo Bryson - D.C Cab 666 Get Smart Original Theme

Baltimore 001 Divine - You Think Youre a Man 002 Bill Callahan - Javelin Unlanding 003 Clutch -  Pigtown Blues 004 Cry Baby Soundtrack - King Cry Baby 005 PIG DESTROYER - Baltimore Strangler 006 Loo Reed - Edgar Allan Poe 007 The Fleshtones - The Girl From Baltimore 008 Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore 009 Prince - Baltimore (feat. Eryn Allen Kane) 010 Mr Bungle - Carry Stress In The Jaw 011 george harrison - baltimore oriole 012 George Brigman - Jungle Rot 013 Primus - DMV 014 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Barefoot in Baltimore 015 Nina Simone - Baltimore 016 The Obsessed - Punk Crusher 017 Scott Walker - The Lady Came From Baltimore 018 Clutch - The Great Outdoors! 019 Frank Zappa - Whats New In Baltimore 020 Mother Freedom Band - Touch Me 021 Misery Index -  The Calling 022 Internal Void - Window to Hell 023 Trapped Under Ice -  Stay Cold 024 Agathocles -  Blatimore Mince Meat 025 FULL OF HELL - Deluminate 026 Dirt Woman - Fades to Greed 027 Wormhole - Nurtured in a Poisoned Womb 028 RHCP - Millionaires Against Hunger 029 Swell Fellas - Placebo 030 Clutch - Hot Bottom Feeder 031 Black Lung  - Ancients 032 Dying Fetus - Fixated On Devastation 033 Motorhead - Civil War 034 NOISEM - Deplorable 035 The Brandos - Gettysburg 037 Visceral Disgorge - Fucked into Oblivion 043 SECRET CUTTER - Trampled By Light 044 Cemetery Piss - Such the Vultures Love 045 Pig Destroyer - [Head Cage #04] Circle River 046 Pockets - Come Go With Me 047 War On Women - Confess 048 Horse Lords - Against Gravity 049 Cry Bay OST - Doin time for being young 050 Clutch - Earth Rocker 666 Locrian - Two Moons

And what a way to meet up in the middle with Clutch teaming up with randy from Lamb of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y6EVouZm-I

[silisa999919]

In 305-303 BC, during the pacification of the Greek cities that opposed his authority (see the publication "To Peaceful Sicily"), the ruler of Syracuse Agafocl (reigned 317/316 – 290/289 BC) sent his commander Deinocrat to the Greek city of Leontina. On behalf of Agafokla, Daynocrat guaranteed the inhabitants of Leontin complete safety if they surrender the city without resistance, which I swore. The inhabitants of Leontin believed the assurances of Deinokrat and let his troops into their city. Soon Agafokl himself arrived in Leontina. Upon his arrival, he asked the men of Leontin to gather for the People's Assembly, and come without weapons, as the order during the meeting will be observed by the soldiers of Deinokrat. When the men of the city, the number of about ten thousand people gathered, Deinokrat was the first to speak to them. He asked the audience to raise their hand to all those who thought Agathocles. It is clear that all those present raised their hands. When the present lowered their hands in front of them, Agathocles went out and said, "I think you all need to be destroyed!" After these words, Deinocrat gave the order and the present were beaten by his soldiers. And their houses and property are looted. In 304/303 BC. Agafoklu needed money urgently. And where to take them, if the subjugated cities of Sicily are already completely removed. You will not rob your supporters, your support in Syracuse and other cities. And Agathocle found a way out. In the days of peace, he and the fleet arrived at the islands of Lyparian, and offered the locals to pay him fifty talents of silver. There was nowhere to go and they began to collect money, but asked for a delay in their collection, as they did not have the necessary sum of Agathocles. Agathocles was not expected to wait, so he ordered to rob the local temple in Pritaneone, where there were many gifts and offerings designed by the God of Hephaestus and the god of the winds of Eola. The priests asked not to touch these bestowals, but their requests were despised. The temple was thoroughly cleaned. Subsumed by eleven cargo ships, which were part of Agafokla's fleet, and went out to sea to sail to Syracuse. When the ships were in the open sea, a storm suddenly broke out and, as ordered, sank only those eleven ships on which the money was taken. So Agafokl ended up with nothing.

[marklegaye-blog]

07252018

Woke up at 6:20am. Drove to work. 7-4. Pipe threading all day. Ate pb sandwich and banana for lunch. Wrote song six for Orchiectomy new shit. 106 deg f in car on my way home. At Church’s chicken for dinner. Played with my kids til their bedtime. Watched Dirty Grampa with My wife til I went to bed.

Playlist:

Your Mom’s house podcast 400 something with Nikki Glazer

Polka Face - Weird Al

More Agathocles

Some live Rot album from Brazil

[omektannou]

in honor of actually starting ayzebel’s blog take this drabble it’s not a drabble it’s four pages of anysus and ayzebel being sad and grumpy post-second punic war i wrote! it elaborates on a few headcanons and probably doesn’t make any sense, but that’s fine with me. enjoy ;-).

“I can feel it too,” Ayzebel promised. She felt her bones ache with every step and knew she had no strength left. Her mind was scatterbrained, even more than usual, completely forgetting one language or replaying phrases of Etruscan she heard in town on repeat. She either roamed the streets randomly, bumping into almost everyone, or did not leave the house at all.

The female personification raised her eyes and looked across the table. Anysus sat hunched over, quite like a lame beggar in the streets. Half of his face was hidden behind a large hand that now shook upon further inspection. The other half, his eyes, gazed at the mosaic floor with neither disappointment nor sadness—no emotional at all.

“Not as intensely as you.” She rarely talked this much, but the words tumbled out like a clumsy slave spilling stacked barrels at the port. They echoed just as loudly. “I really felt it when he came here. I didn't— I didn't think somewhere as far as Zama even affected us. Sometimes I dream I am one of the prisoners. He wasn't smart, just got lucky. They shouldn't have sued for peace.”

Not even that changed Anysus’ posture, and that opinion was one of his own. She did not have one either way, too blinded by pain to think for those few weeks.

“We’re doing fine financially already,” the girl continued, her hands folded so tightly in her lap that her tan knuckles blanched with the strain. The world would stop when Carthage didn't have money. “It doesn't seem like it, but we have enough to pay them. For now. Unlike… Unlike last time.” The war on the mercenaries had hit Ayzebel harder than the other. He’d already been in a downwards spiral of pain, and it was her first taste of it, so many years past Agathocles’ terror on the city.

“...What are we going to do?” she asked into the gloom of the dusty room, an old branch of the library she found Anysus hiding in. “What are you going to do?”

His tea was getting cold, she could see. He had not touched it. If Ayzebel had not been leaning forward, she might not have heard him at all. “I don't want to do anything at all.”

Her face, almost always without emotion, scrunched into an unreadable expression before melting away with an exhale. “We have the city. We don't have the empire,” she pointed out bluntly. “We never will if we can't raise an army. Numidia’s already started to— what a bitch. We can't do anything if we don't have a navy.”

Anysus’ voice was barely above a wheeze. “Ten.”

Her heart went out to him behind its walls, being ever rebuilt since Arria’s passing. Brick by brick, event by event. She knew the navy and the port was dearer to him than anything else, and it would be to her too if she'd been allowed. The two of them loved the sea itself equally. They had no elephants either, though most of them had died already. Anysus kept Kbiir, but in the recently empty pens under the outer wall, he looked lonely. “We still have merchants. The port is still open.” They had nothing to trade.

“Pirates,” was Anysus’ hoarse one-word answer.

“We could rely on aristocrats and privateers for their own vessels,” she insisted. “Romulus has his nose so far up patricians’ asses, he won't notice if he have more than ten war ships.” She had thought about all of this in her time alone and after the pain of Zama had subsided to a dull ache. What would happen if they lost.

The man did not have a response for that, it seemed, not even a shrug of his shoulders. He'd aged so much in seventeen short years since they last saw each other. Anysus always grew quickly as a child, and she joined his exponential growth in the sixth century, but this was different. This was wrong.

The angle brought the light to expose the depth and dark color of his undereye circles. He did not actually have wrinkles, but his face was always arranged in such a melancholy scowl that some still showed. His shoulders sagged with the weight of a heavy burden, though almost all of their responsibilities had gone with losing the war. The life had gone out of him when Romulus first brought the news of Aranth’s death, but he was now a walking corpse. Ayzebel could not say she looked better herself, an ashy pallor, frayed hair, and no kohl.

She wanted to know everything he saw with Hannibal. She could not imagining facing the Etruscans’ ghosts for fifteen years. When Arria had fled to Carthage with some of the population of Cisra, Ayzebel had thought that had been a hard thing to watch. She attempted to stay alive in one of the new Etruscan refugee neighborhoods but faded and faded under Ayzebel’s watch. Aranth had died even earlier, and Anysus had been made to trample on his grave. Well, no more than the Romans already had, she supposed.

The silence had lasted for more than a few moments, but it dispersed instead of hanging heavy in the air. They both knew they did not have to talk constantly. She was exhausting herself even further by venting.

A bracelet slid down her arm and clanged as it met other ones as she lifted her arm to grab the cup of tea. It was Etruscan, no doubt—they all were. Anysus’ were too. After all that work, Ayzebel didn't have enough energy to lift it to her lips, and let her arm lie limp on the table. The other one would have joined it if it could.

Ayzebel slumped in her chair further and stared at her lap. “I can't predict the future,” she admitted. “I don't know what will become of us.” Anysus only blinked at that, likely a bodily response and not even a reply.

“I can't— I can't stay in the city for too long.” Ah, a sentence. Perhaps they were getting somewhere.

Ayzebel knew he was more used to traveling, but she glanced up at him and raised an eyebrow. “I doubt you'll be going anywhere for a while.” She had seen him fall down the stairs or pass out on the stairs a few times now, and it'd only been a week. He averted his eyes.

They both ended up standing in front of the Etruscan community somehow. Ayzebel could not say how they got there or whose idea it was. Perhaps it was unspoken communication. They stood off to the side and watched people come and go and sniffed at whatever someone was cooking in the air. Some of them grew to know Ayzebel when she attended Arria, but she did not want them to see her right now. The noise was overbearing, even if it was caused by her second favorite people past her own. Anysus, though she would argue he was more emotional than she was, had nothing on his face at all.

“How long did she live?” Anysus asked suddenly, startling Ayzebel with the jarring question.

“A while,” was all she could manage before she thought about it further. “A few months. She… She slowly faded. Much like I imagine Aranth did.” They were no strangers to the other gender personification and loved them just as much, only platonically. Anysus nodded lifelessly.

“The sarcophagus, I— I couldn't bring it back—”

She looked up at him then, eyes scrunched in worry. His voice was frail and watery, threatening to break at any second. She had no idea what he was talking about; they hadn't talked about much since he got back. As she was about to ask, an image of a stone sarcophagus flashed into her mind violently. She'd seen it before, in her dreams.

She would still need to ask about the details. Ayzebel clutched a nearby railing and scanned the area with heavy eyes. Both of their eyes settled on two children laughing and playing with a dog. It looked to be one of the city strays, but it was playing with them rather than hurting them. Ayzebel wondered if she knew the children; she likely did.

The woman glanced back to Anysus. He was watching the same kids, but after the first outburst of emotion, his face was stone again. She could feel her own heart hardening too. They were both too hollow.

“Let’s visit Kbiir,” she offered quietly. She was happiest among her own pets, but Anysus needed to be somewhere familiar if they were to share miseries. The empty outer wall was depressing, but Ayzebel hoped they could both overlook that. Kbiir had been with Anysus the entire war.

She felt a sudden anger rise in her as the two of them turned away from the community, though she could not say why. She squashed it as she did any other emotion, but it continued to bubble over as she walked. She wanted to know everything about why nations died. Not that she wanted them to, but she wanted to know why Tyre and other Phoenicians hadn't died when they were conquered. Why Egypt hadn't. Why the Romans were so unkillable and how she could end them for once and for all.

“Don't bother,” Anysus said bluntly as they ascended a hill. He must have felt her anger radiating, as they sometimes tended to do, sharing emotions. They were both still very closed-off people, but their thoughts flowed back and forth. At least he stopped her before she started grinding her teeth and punching a wall. It all left her in a wave, and she found it hard to continue walking. Both of them might get dizzy and pass out in the street if they weren't careful.

Nothing had happened to the city, so they were both in good shape there. But the rest of what they were supposed to represent had crumbled. The Italian islands had been gone for decades, and after holding it since Carthage’s beginnings, Iberia was gone too. Personally and mentally, they were both absolute wrecks.

“‘m glad Hannibal sent back his wife early on,” Ayzebel said. “I hardly had anyone to talk to.”

Anysus’ answer was “I know,” but she got flashes of images of a random Carthaginian man and friendly bonfires in the dark until images of dry desert caked with blood interrupted them. She had found Anysus in horrible shape after Zama, and it lasted for about a week after. When she passed the banquet hall one day, a human family was sitting at the table with him. It was likely he had at least one person. She wondered what he saw of her time in the city, which was no war, but had been hard enough.

They reached a point in the city where Byrsa was not blocking the sky and they could see the sunset. The two of them stood off to the side of the narrow road and watched it. Bands of pink and yellow reached out for the sea in an orange haze.

“Sunsets in Etruria were always prettier,” Ayzebel observed, melancholy. The warm tones would contrast with the cool nights and bounce off of all the green foliage.

Anysus didn't say anything for a long time, his entire body taut as a bowstring. Neither of them were thinking of anything of any substance right now. After a few minutes and a cart rolling past, into the fading clamor used almost as a cover, Anysus whispered, “I miss them.”

Ayzebel looked at the deridingly pretty sunset with a sour twist of her lips. The beauty was useless if it was not permanent. She did not know how something so good could end. “I know.”

[talhaghafoor2019-blog]

Executed (2005) » Music lossless (flac, ape, wav). Music archive LOSSLESS. Music lossless download.

Mucupurulent - Drenched In Blood (2017)

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Agathocles - Hunt Hunters , Robotized (2011)

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Skid Row - Slave To The Grind (1991)

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Lividity - ...'Til Only The Sick Remain (2002)

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Grind Inc. - Sudden State Of Hate (2008)

Performer: Grind Inc. Album: Sudden State Of Hate Label: Twilight....  24.01.2017

Exhumed - Slaughtercult (2001)

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Virulence - A Conflict Scenario (2001)

Performer: Virulence Album: A Conflict Scenario Label: Morbid...  26.03.2018

Nocte Obducta - Taverne (2000)

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Machetazo - Horror Grind/The Maggot Sessions [2EP] (2003)

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Benediction - Grind Bastard (1998)

Performer: Benediction Album: Grind Bastard Label: Irond. Made in...  11.03.2018

Nickelback - Greatest Hits [2CD] (2009)

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Агата Кристи - Опиум (1994) [Издание 2008]

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Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (1993)

Performer: Depeche Mode Album: Songs Of Faith And Devotion Label:...  27.02.2018

Depeche Mode - Ultra (1997)

Performer: Depeche Mode Album: Ultra Label: Mute Records. Made in UK....  27.02.2018

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13 (1997)

Performer: Jean Michel Jarre Album: Oxygene 7-13 Label: Disques...  11.03.2018

Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd [2CD] (2001)

Performer: Pink Floyd Album: Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd Label:...  03.03.2018

Yello - Stella (1985) [Remaster 2005]

Performer: Yello Album: Stella Label: Universal Music. Made in EU....  16.03.2018

Rainbow - Greatest Hits [2CD] (2008)

Performer: Rainbow Album: Greatest Hits (2CD) Label: ©+® 2008...  10.02.2018

E-Type - Greatest Hits [2CD] (2008)

Performer: E-Type Album: Greatest Hits (2CD) Label: Stockholm...  10.02.2018

Синяя птица - Синяя птица (1977) [Vinyl Rip 24bit/96kHz]

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Inna - Hot (2009)

Performer: Inna Album: Hot Label: CD Land, RDS Records. Made in...  20.07.2015

VA - Dream Dance Vol.54 [2CD] (2010)

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Ария - Герой асфальта (1988) [Vinyl Rip 24bit/96kHz]

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VA - Dream Dance Vol.03 [2CD] (1996)

Performer: Various Artists Album: Dream Dance Vol.03 Label: Sony...  12.01.2013

C.C. Catch - Catch The Catch (1986)

Performer: C.C. Catch Album: Catch The Catch Label: Hansa. Made in...  11.08.2014

VA - Dream Dance Vol.01 [2CD] (1996)

Performer: Various Artists Album: Dream Dance Vol.01 Label: Sony...  12.01.2013

VA - Dream Dance Vol.10 [2CD] (1998)

Performer: Various Artists Album: Dream Dance Vol.10 Label: Sony...  08.07.2013

Jes - Into The Dawn (The Hits Disconnected) (2008)

Performer: Jes Album: Into The Dawn (The Hits Disconnected) Label:...  03.11.2012

Дидюля - Фламенко (2000) [Reissued 2006]

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[carcosapr]

ESCUELA (ex-Kill The Client) Announced As Direct Support For Wormrot On Upcoming North American Tour

Ithaca, New York-based powerviolence unit ESCUELA has been confirmed as direct support for Wormrot on their upcoming North American summer tour. In addition, the band is currently trekking across the U.S. on a spring tour of their own, supporting Infest and Gag on select dates. 

Listen to ESCUELA's Virulent 2017 Split With Disparo! HERE.

"Within a month, we whipped together a two-week Spring Tour; including a string of DIY shows across the U.S. to join Infest and Gag for shows in Seattle and Portland," says vocalist Katerina Economou, "and with the help of our friend Ron from Crawlspace Booking, we are incredibly grateful to have landed this tour with the almighty Wormrot. See you soon!" ESCUELA Tour Dates: 3/9 Detroit, MI @ Trumbullplex 3/11 St. Louis, MO @ Fubar 3/12 Wichita, KS @ Kirby's Beer Store 3/13 Denver, CO @ BarBar 3/14 Salt Lake City, UT @ DisHouse 3/15 Boise, ID @ The Shredder 3/16 Portland, OR @ Dante's * 3/17 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon * 3/19 Fargo, ND @ Red Raven 3/20 LeClaire, IA @ Bierstube w/ Wormrot 05/25 Syracuse. NY @ Spark 05/26 Providence, RI @ AS220 05/28 Harrisonburg, VA @ Golden Pony 05/29 Pittsburgh, PA @ Black Forge Coffee House 05/30 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's 05/31 Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary 06/01 Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt 06/02 Montreal, QC @ Earslaughter Fest 06/03 Montclair, NJ @ Meatlocker * - with Infest and Gag Based out of the small progressive city of Ithaca, New York, ESCUELA has been making a name for themselves through a prolific touring schedule and releases, including the self-released debut EP Non Serviam, splits with Washington, D.C-based Reeking Cross and Australia's Disparo!, and a forthcoming full-length scheduled for 2018. Through punishingly short songs, ESCUELA delivers politically charged lyrics inspired by modern anxieties, unrest, and the roots of grindcore. 

For Fans Of: Infest, Agathocles, Despise You, Napalm Death, Crossed Out ESCUELA is: Katerina "LaJefa" Economou - Vocals Jason Balthazar - Guitar Jackson Kovalchik - Guitar Jesse Fuentes (ex-Kill the Client) - Drums https://www.facebook.com/escuelagrind https://escuelaescuela.bandcamp.com http://www.instagram.com/escuelagrind

[gardenofkore]

The Epirote descendants of Agathocles of Syracuse and his second wife Alkeia

AGATHOCLES II or AGATHOCLES Junior (Ἀγαθοκλῆς), son Agathocles by his second wife Alkeia. Nothing is known about his life up to the moment his father sent him to Macedonia, at the court of Demetrius I Poliorcetes. This voyage had been organised with the intent to present the younger Agathocles as his father's heir and to form an alliance with Macedonia. Indeed Demetrius received him with all the honours, dressed him in regal robes and gave him splendid gifts. Back in Syracuse the old tyrant officially introduced his son as his successor in front of the people. The younger Agathocles was then sent to the Syracusan encampment, at that time stationed near Etna. Up to that time, the army had been led by Arcagathus, son in turn of the late Arcagathus (not to be confused with the Egyptian one), firstborn of the tyrant. As soon as Arcagathus received his grandfather's order to hand over the army's command to the younger Agathocles, he devised a plan to kill both his grandfather and half-uncle and seize the power. As he instructed his collaborator Menon to poison the tyrant, Arcagathus invited his uncle and, after having got him drunk, murdered him. Agathocles' body was thrown into the sea and, after some time, the tide washed him ashore, where he was recognised and brought to his dying father. Indeed the poison didn't kill immediately the older Agathocles. As soon as the tyrant found out what had happened, he disinherited his grandson and proclaimed as his successor the people of Syracuse, thus abolishing the monarchy and re-established the democracy.

LANASSA (Λάνασσα) see

ALEXANDER II (Αλέξανδρος), son of Pyrrhus I and Lanassa, daughter of the tyrant Agathocles. Alexander succeeded his father as the King of Epirus in 272 BC. He managed to drive Antigonus II Gonatas out of Macedonia, thus finishing his late father's job, but was in turn driven out of his country by Antigonus' son, Demetrius II. Alexander then took refuge among the Acarnians and, with their help and that of his subjects still loyal to him, he recovered Epirus. He married his half-sister Olympias II (daughter of Pyrrhus' first wife, Antigone), who bore him three children: Pyrrhus, Phthia and Ptolemy. Alexander died in 242 BC and was succeeded by his son Phyrrus, although Olympias briefly assumed the regency on account of her sons' young age. She ruled over Macedonia until Pyrrhus reached adulthood.

PYRRHUS II (Πύρρος), son of Alexander II and Olympias II. He succeeded his father when he died in 242 BC, although he effectively started to rule when he reached adulthood. He fathered two daughters (Deidameia and Nereis) with an unnamed woman. Pyrrhus died in 237 BC and was succeeded by his brother Ptolemy.

PHTHIA (Φθια), daughter of Alexander II and Olympias II. Following her father's death, and before 239 BC, Phthia was married by her mother the Regent to Demetrius II of Macedonia. Olympias intended to build up an alliance with Macedonia to contrast the Aetolian League. Nothing else is known about her.

PTOLEMY (Πτολεμαῖος), son of Alexander II and Olympias II. He was called after his late uncle, his mother's full-brother, who probably died in childbirth. Ptolemy succeeded his brother Pyrrhus, but died in 235 BC, after having ruled for three years. He was in the middle of a military expedition when he fell sick and died (although, according to Polyaenus, he was murdered). It is said his mother died soon after of heartbreak since she couldn't bear to lose his sons in such a short period of time. Ptolemy was succeeded by his son, Pyrrhus.

PYRRHUS III (Πύρρος), son of Ptolemy and an unnamed woman. He was only a child when he became King of Epirus, after his father's sudden death. Two years later, Pyrrhus was killed in a coup that had the intent to abolish the monarchy and institute the republic. He was succeeded by his cousin Deidameia.

DEIDAMEIA II or DEIDAMIA (Δηιδάμεια), daughter of Pyrrhus II and an unnamed woman. She succeeded her cousin Pyrrhus III as sovereign of Epirus. Unfortunately for Deidamia, she found herself in the middle of the revolution. She fled to Ambracia and, when  offered clemency if she surrendered, she capitulated. She sought refuge in the temple of Artemis as soon as it was clear the Epirotes wouldn't find peace until they were sure they had wiped out the entire royal family. Heedless of the sacrality of the place, the mob killed Deidamia in the sanctuary itself. She was the last Aeacid sovereign of Epirus. After her death, the republic was instituted.

NEREIS (Νηρηΐς) see

HARMONIA (Ἁρμονία) see

HIERONYMUS (῾Ιερώνυμος), son of Gelo of Syracuse and Nereis, daughter of Pyrrhus III of Epirus. Hieronymus was born in Syracuse in 231 BC. After Gelo died in 216 BC, his father, the tyrant Hiero II, named his grandson as his heir. Fearing for Syracuse' fate, Hiero had entrusted his grandson's preparation to numerous tutors, hoping they would correct his weak and (apparently) depraved character. To guide the youngster, at least at the beginning of his rulership, the tyrant had created a council of 15 trusted men, which counted his sons-in-law, Adranodoros and Zoippus. Hiero died in 215 BC and, as he had arranged, he was succeeded by the 15-years old Hieronymus. Polybius describes the new tyrant as “unstable and feather-brained” and, according to the historian, he shocked everyone by marrying a prostitute and giving her the title of queen. The immature tyrant found himself in the middle of the internal strife between the pro-Carthaginian faction and the pro-Roman faction. The former one was represented mainly by Andranodorus and Zoippus, who managed to weaken their enemies and easily manipulated their nephew-in-law. An alliance was agreed between Syracuse and Carthage, represented by Hannibal. According to this treaty, the island of Sicily was going to be ideally divided by the river Himera into two areas. The western part would belong to Carthage, the eastern part to Syracuse. Soon after Hieronymus asked for the western part too and, fearing to lose such an important ally, the Carthaginian caved in. In return, the tyrant had to raise an army and conquer all those Sicilian cities which still hadn't been conquered by either Carthage or Syracuse and were under Rome’s influence. Hieronymus quickly obliged and prepared to Leontinoi, where the pro-Roman faction was dominant. These people feigned to peacefully welcoming him, but while Hieronymus was walking through the city's streets, a group of conspirators attacked him and stabbed him to death. It was 214 BC and Hieronymus had ruled for merely 13 months. He was the last basileus of Sicily. Syracuse will be conquered by Rome in 212 BC.

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The Egyptian descendants of Agathocles of Syracuse and his third wife Theoxena

ARCHAGATHUS OF LYBIA (Άρχάγαθος) son Agathocles by his third wife Theoxena, a Greek Macedonian noble. When only a child, he was forced to leave Syracuse with his mother and sister Theoxena the Younger. They found refuge in Egypt, at the court of his maternal grandmother Berenice I and his step-grandfather Ptolemy I. Given his family background, Archagathus was a man of high status. He served as an epistates under Ptolemy I, Ptolemy II (who was Archagathos’ half-uncle) and possibly even under Magas (his full blooded maternal uncle) when he served as Ptolemaic Governor and later became King of Cyrene. At some point, he married a noblewoman named Stratonice. Together with his wife, Archagathus made a dedication of a temenos to Isis and Serapis at Alexandria on behalf of his uncle Ptolemy II and his grandmother Berenice. No mention is made anywhere about any children fathered by Archagathus.

THEOXENA THE YOUNGER see

AGATHOCLES (Ἀγαθοκλῆς) son of Theoxena the Younger and her unnamed husband. Agathocles, born and raised in Egypt, was named after his maternal Sicilian grandfather, Agathocles tyrant of Syracuse. Despite being closely related to the Ptolemaic royal family, very little is known about him. He married an  Egyptian Greek noblewoman called Oenanthe, who bore him four children: Agathocles, Agathoclea and two unnamed daughters. After his death, his widow remarried to Theogenes (also known as Theognetos or Diognetos), a prominent Egyptian Greek. 

AGATHOCLES (Ἀγαθοκλῆς) son of Agathocles (son of Theoxena the Younger) and his wife Oenanthe. Thanks to his mother’s meddling, he was introduced to Ptolemy IV (his father Agathocles’ half-second cousin) and took advangate of his own sister’s affair with the Pharaoh to increase his influence over the court. In  216/215 BC Agathocles served as eponymous priest of the Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great.  When Ptolemy died in 205 BC, Agathocles, his sister Agathoclea and their party tried to kept the event secret to get the chance to plunder the royal treasure without any interference. When the plan to name Agathocles the new Pharaoh failed, together with Sosibius (chief minister of the late Ptolemy IV), his sister plotted to make the same Agathocles the regent for the new young King Ptolemy V. To achieve this, the Queen mother Arsinoe was murdered. When Ptolemy and Arsinoe’s death were made public, Sosibius presented the young Ptolemy V and crowned him as the new King. Sosibius later read out Ptolemy IV's will (Polybius thought that it was a forgery produced by Sosibius and Agathocles themselves), which made Sosibius and Agathocles regents and placed Ptolemy V in the personal care of Agathoclea and her mother Oenanthe. At some point Agathocles may have killed his former ally Sisibius, although all particulars of these events are lost to us.  Soon the Egyptians and Greeks of Alexandria grew exasperated at Agathocles' outrages and in 203/202 BC rose against him. They surrounded the palace in the night, and forced their way in. Agathocles was killed by his friends, who wanted to spare him a more cruel ending. 

AGATHOCLEA (Ἀγαθόλεια), daughter of Agathocles (son of Theoxena the Younger) and his wife Oenanthe. Like her brother, thanks to her mother’s meddling, she was introduced to Ptolemy IV and quickly became his mistress. Agathoclea’s influence over the Pharaoh didn’t diminish even after he married his sister Arsinoe in 220 BC. In late  210 BC, Agathoclea may have bore Ptolemy IV a son, who have died shortly after his birth. When Ptolemy died in 205 BC, Agathoclea and her party tried to kept the event secret to get the chance to plunder the royal treasure without any interference. When the plan to name her brother the new Pharaoh failed, together with Sosibius (chief minister of the late Ptolemy IV), she plotted to make Agathocles the regent for the new young King Ptolemy V. To achieve this, the Queen mother Arsinoe was murdered. Ptolemy IV's (likely forged) will placed Ptolemy V in the personal care of Agathoclea and her mother Oenanthe. In 203/202 BC the Egyptians and Greeks of Alexandria rose against Agathocles and his party. They surrounded the palace in the night, and forced their way in. Agathoclea, with her sisters and mother, had taken refuge in a temple. With no regard of the sacredness of the place, they were dragged out by the angry mob, stripped, led to the stadium naked on horseback and tore their body limb from limb. 

TWO UNNAMED DAUGHTERS of Agathocles (son of Theoxena the Younger) and his wife Oenanthe. Nothing is known about these girls, except they shared the horrible fate of their infamous mother and sister. After being dragged out of their shelter, they were slaughtered and mutilated by the crowd.

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The Syracusan descendants of Agathocles of Syracuse and his first wife, the Widow of Damas

ARCHAGATHUS (Ἀρχάγαθος) was a Syracusan Greek prince, son of tyrant Agathocles by his first wife, the Widow of Damas. He shared his name with his younger half-brother, Archagathus of Lybia. In 310 BC he joined his father’s African expedition. After being defeated by the Carthaginians in the Battle of Himera and being besieged in Syracuse, Agathocles feared for his rulership. As his dominance over the other Sicilian cities was based on Syracuse’s military supremacy, the tyrant knew he had to stop Carthage, possibly on its own soil. While in Africa, Archagathus was publicly accused during a banquet by a man named Lyciscus (at that moment quite drunk) to have committed incest with his step-mother, Alkeia. Affronted by the accuse, Archagathus mortally wounded the man, shocking the bystanders. The murder almost cost the prince’s life as Lyciscus’ friends together with many other outraged soldiers asked Agathocles to hand them over his son so that he may be put to death. If the tyrant refused, then he had to die instead of Archagathus. Since he knew the Carthaginians were actively trying to have his men change side, and fearing he might end up being handed over to his enemy, Agathocles judged it was preferable risking his life amid his people. He then put aside his regal clothes and stood unprotected in the middle of the crowd. After giving a passionate speech, he motioned as if he was going to kill himself with his sword. The crowd stopped him and urged him to put on his royal garbs once more. Moved and thankful, Agathocles obliged while being acclaimed by the people. He had managed thus to protect his own as well his son’s life, strengthened his position and won a symbolic victory over the Carthaginians. In 307 BC, Agathocles had to go back to Sicily to stop the Siceliot city of Akrágas  to challenge Syracuse’s power. Archagathus, as the tyrant’s eldest son, was left in charge of the African expedition. After a series of military victories, the army led by Archagathus was defeated thrice and was forced to seek refuge in Tunis. Knowing that his son was struggling, Agathocles returned to Africa to help him. The tyrant found a decimated and disgruntled army, on the verge of mutiny. Unfortunately for Agathocles, his attempt to rile up his men met with a bitter loss which cost the life of 300 soldiers, the execution of 3000 prisoners at the hands of the Carthaginians, and the mutiny of 10000 allied soldiers. Sensing the army’s hostility, the tyrant chose to hastily abandon Africa, leaving his sons behind. Without his father’s backup, Archagathus together with his brother Heracleides became an easy target for the angry soldiers, who ordered they had to be put to death. The murder of his children angered Agathocles to the point he ordered the massacre of all the relatives of those Syracusan soldiers who were part of the African expedition. Children, women and old people, nobody was spared, making this the most tragic slaughter ordered by Agathocles.

HERACLEIDES (Ἢρακλείδης) was a Syracusan Greek prince, son of tyrant Agathocles by his first wife, the Widow of Damas. According to Greek author Polyenus, Heracleides’ good-looking was instrumental in his father’s plot to eliminate Macedonian former hetairos (Alexander’s companions), Ophellas, at that time Ptolemaic governor of Cyrenaica. Once allied, Agathocles grew quickly disaffected with the Macedonian, to the point of planning to get rid of him. Knowing that Ophellas liked pretty boys, Agathocles offered him his son Heracleides as a hostage to prove his goodwill and desire to form an anti-Carthaginian alliance with the Macedonian warrior. Heracleides’ received secret instruction from his father to entice Ophellas, but in the meantime to resist the older man’s overtures. The plan succeeded as Ophellas fell madly in love with that beautiful boy, and tried his best to convince Heracleides to give himself to him. While he was in his tent courting the boy, Agathocles barged in. Feigning shock and disgust, Agathocles accused his former ally to have betrayed him, trying to seduce his son. Caught off guard, Ophellas didn’t even had the chance to defend himself before Agathocles killed him. The wronged father then took his son back to the Syracusan camp. Without a leader, the Cyrenaic troops were incorporated by Agathocles’. Heracleides took part in the disastrous African expedition together with his brother and father, sharing Archagathus’ tragic end at the hands of the Syracusan soldiers.

ARCHAGATHUS (Ἀρχάγαθος) was a Syracusan Greek prince, son of Archagathus (firstborn of Agathocles) by an unknown woman. Described as a young man with great virility and strength, on account of these qualities, after his father’s death in Lybia, he must have thought he was to be his grandfather’s heir. Unfortunately for him, Agathocles had already decided to have his namesake son, Agathocles II, succeeding him. Seeing as his dreams of power were about to be shattered, Archagathus planned to kill both his grandfather and half-uncle and secure by himself his succession. He dragged in the murderous plan a certain Menon, a Segesta-born slave, who was ordered to put poison on the quill the older Agathocles used to clean his teeth after eating. As for the younger Agathocles, he was lured by his half-nephew on an island. There, Archagathus had the unsuspecting uncle getting drunk, then he killed him. Agathocles junior’s body was then thrown into the sea (perhaps hoping it would disappear forever), being later washed ashore by the waves, where some people recognized him. In the meantime, the agonizing tyrant (the poison didn’t kill immediately, but caused him a slow death), now aware of his grandson’s terrible scheming, publically denounced Archagathus, asking the Syracusan to avenge his death and, in exchange, granting them the freedom. He declared the tyranny decayed and announced Syracuse was once again a democracy. As for Archagathus, he fled away from Syracuse together Menon, who later killed him, smug with the idea of having been the one who had successfully overthrown Agathocles’ despised tyranny. 

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The Wives of Agathocles tyrant of Syracuse (361 BC -289 BC)

1. The Widow of Damas (IV century BC - III century BC) Her name has been lost to history and it is only known she was the widow of Damas, the wealthy patron and erastès of young Agathocles. By marrying his former lover’s widow and taking possession of her riches, the future tyrant reinforced his position and used his newly acquired wealth as a stepping stone in his conquest of power. This unnamed woman gave Agathocles two sons: Archagathus and Heracleides.

2 Alkeia (IV century BC - III century BC) Mother of Agathocles II and Lánassa, queen of Epyrus as spouse of Pyrrhus I. Alkeia is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus in his account of the Syracusan expedition in Africa. After getting drunk during a dinner party, a soldier called Lyciscus insinuated Agathocles’ son Archagathus had a secret affair with his step-mother Alkeia. Angered for having been insulted in front of his father, Archagathus slayed Lyciscus with a spear. This murder shocked the soldiers who revolted against Agathocles and his family. During the uprising, the Princes Archagathus and Heracleides were executed by the troops. As revenge of his sons’ deaths, Agathocles sent to death all the families of the rioters. Following his brothers’ deceases, Alkeia’s son Agathocles II became his father’s successor but was killed in 289 BC by his own half-nephew Archagathus. Embittered by his grandson’s horrific act, a dying Agathocles proclaimed as his heir the people of Syracuse, thus reinstating the democracy.

3 Theoxena of Syracuse (before 317 BC - after 289 BC)  Her mother was Greek Macedonian princess Berenice, great-niece of the general and Regent Antipater of Macedonia, and later second Ptolemaic queen of Egypt as spouse of Ptolemy I. While her father was Berenice's first husband Philip, a Greek Macedonian nobleman who had served under Alexander The Great. Theoxena had two full siblings: Magas (later king of Cyrene), and Antigone, first wife of Pyrrhus I of Epyrus. She was also step-sister of Ptolemy II of Egypt, Arsinoe II and Philotera from her mother’s marriage to Ptolemy. After Philip’s death in 381 BC, Berenice took her children to Egypt to live at the court of her second maternal cousin Eurydice, first wife of Ptolemy I. The king soon fell in love with Berenice and divorced from Eurydice to marry his beloved. Theoxena grew up as a Ptolemaic princess and her marriage to Agathocles of Syracuse was part of Ptolemy’s diplomatic strategy to create and strenghten various allegiances with other Ellenistic sovereigns. While in Syracuse, she gave birth to two children: Archagathus of Lybia and Theoxena the Younger. Just before Agathocle’s death, Theoxena had to leave Sicily with her children on the order of her husband, who feared for their lives. Theoxena spent her remaining years living in Egypt, at the court of her mother and step-father. Her chilren and their descendants played important roles under the reigns of her step-brother Ptolemy II, nephew Ptolemy III and great-nephew Ptolemy IV.

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1 Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, book 19, 3

2 Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, book 20, 33

3  Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, book 23, 2

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"For what," he [the praetor Sopater] asked, "could a boy like Hieronymus, who was hardly in his teens, have done on his own initiative? His guardians and masters reigned unmolested because the odium fell on another; they ought to have perished before Hieronymus or at all events when he did. [...] But it was really the wives who were responsible and who, being of royal blood, had filled their husbands with a passion for royalty, for one of the men had married Hiero's daughter, the other a daughter of Gelo." At these words shouts rose from the whole assembly declaring that neither of these women ought to live, and that no single member of the royal family ought to survive.

Livy, History of Rome, book 24-24

The Women of the House of Hiero II of Syracuse (3rd century BC)

Philistis was the daughter of an influential Syracusan citizen, Leptines. Through her father, she descended from Siceliot historian Philistus. Around 275 BC Philistis married Hiero, who will become tyrant of Syracuse in 270 BC. This man was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan nobleman, Hierocles. Hiero served under Pyrrhus I of Epirus during the Sicilian campaign, and after the King of Epirus left the Island, Hiero was appointed arcontes together with another man, Artemidorus. While the latter, at some point, simply disappeared from the chronicles, Hiero managed to establish a personal rule resembling the contemporary Hellenistic reigns. Philistis would give birth to three children: Gelo, Demarata and Heraclia. Nothing more is known about her life or death, although she’s portrayed in various coins minted during the reign of her husband. In these coins Philistis appears veiled and with idealized traits, resembling the type of Demeter, but also in the style of the coins of the Ptolemaic queens of Egypt.

Demarata was daughter of Hiero II and Philistis. Her name was chosen to honor late queen Demarete of Syracuse and in an attempt to link Hiero’s dinasty to previous tyrant Gelon’s, from whom Hiero declared to descend. Demarata married Adranodoros, one of Hieronymus’ fifteen guardians and part of the pro-Carthaginian faction. Hieronymus was Hiero’s grandson and heir as well as Demarata’s nephew and became Syracuse’s tyrant after his grandfather’s death in 215 BC. Taking advantage of his nephew’s young age (he was 15 at that time), Adranodoros concluded an alliance between Syracuse and Carthage, thus betraying Rome. Moreover he dismissed the other guardians and became Hieronymus’ sole ward with the title of chief counsellor. Hieronymus was killed (stabbed to death) in 214 BC in Leontini by a band of conspirators led by the Syracusan Deinomenes. He had ruled for just 13 months. At first, Adranodoros attempted to seize the power and become the new tyrant. When he understood it was too difficult and risky, he surrendered the power to the Syracusan people and was appointed general. But soon the people became wary of Adranodoros, especially after Ariston, a comedian and friend of the general, declared that Adranodoros and Themistos (brother-in-law of the late Hieronymus) were plotting to massacre the other influential citizens to establish their personal tiranny. Syracusan senate then gave order to eliminate the threat and so Adronodoros and Themistus were killed as soon as they entered the Senate building in 214 BC. Not satisfied with just those two murders and with the intent to justify his decision, the other general Sopater (member of the pro-Roman faction) accused the two men’s wives. In particular, Demarata was depicted as ambitious and power-hungry. She was accused of being the real mastermind behind the idea to remove Hieronymus’ other guardians, as a matter of fact starting Adranodoros’ scramble for power. Demarata’s supposed (or not) aspiration to become Syracuse’s queen was shattered the moment she was killed by the angry mob incited by Sopater’s accusations.

Heraclia was daughter of Hiero II and Philistis, as well as sister of Demarata and Gelo. She married Zoippus, who together with Adranoros was one of his nephew Hieronymus’ guardians. Like his brother-in-law, Zoippus was part of the pro-Carthaginian faction and worked to distance Syracuse from Rome. He was sent to a diplomatic mission to Ptolemy (most certainly Ptolemy IV Philopator). When in 214 BC Zoippus was reached by the news of Hieronymus’ death, he decided to remain in Alexandria in a self-imposed exile and so he survived his family’s massacre. His wife, Heraclia, and his two unnamed daughters weren’t equally lucky. No importance was given to the fact they were extraneous of plots and political schemes, what mattered was they were members of the royal family. They seeked refuge in a temple, hoping the mob would have respected the sacrality of the place. Heraclia implored the crowd to at least spare the girls, who were so young and innocent and just kill her. She was dragged outside the temple and killed before her daughters’ eyes with her blood splattering them. The girls, at first, managed to resist, but in the end they fell lifeless to the ground with their bodies full of wounds and whole place was covered in their blood. Soon after a messenger arrived with the order they were not to be killed, but it was already too late.

Nereis was an Epirote princess and the daughter of Pyrrhus II of Epirus and an unnamed woman. Her sister Deidameia was the last Aeacid sovereign of Epirus. Nereis descended from both Pyrrhus I of Epirus (her great-grandfather) and the Syracusan tyrant Agathocles (her great-great-grandfather). Her marriage to Gelo, Hiero’s son, was part of her father-in-law’s policy to strenghten and validate his dynasty. A similar alliance had been established in the past, and  Nereis was the result of it. The marriage pact was concluded just before the fall of the Aeacid dynasty. The princess bore at least two children to Gelo, a girl and a boy: Harmonia and Hieronymus. Nothing is known about her fate, but it’s implied she survived her sister, making Nereis the last surviving Aeacid royal member.

Harmonia was the only daughter of Gelo of Syracuse and Nereis of Epirus. This made her the granddaughter and then the sister of the last two Syracusan tyrants. She married Themistos, member of the pro-Carthaginian faction and possibly one of the 15 guardians of Hieronymus. Themistos was accused together with Adranodoros to aspire to a personal tyranny following the murder of his brother-in-law and then killed. Like her aunt Demarata, Harmonia was considered a schemer and a puppetmaster of both her husband and young brother. After the murders of her aunts and cousins, it was only a matter of time Harmonia would have followed them. Her nurse then found a girl of the same age and resembling her protegée. The girl accepted to pass off the princess and was dressed in royal attire by the nurse, then she proceded to draw all the attention to her. In the meantime, Harmonia went hiding, but seeing the murderous crowd killing the innocent girl was too much for the princess. Tradition says she killed herself, although according to Valerius Maximus she revealed herself in front of the killers, claiming to be the real Harmonia, and was instantly murdered.

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07242018

Woke up 620am went to work. 7-4. Ate a pb sandwich and a banana. Cnc all day. 102 deg f in the car ride home. Made song 5 for new orchiectomy shit. Played with wife and kids rest of day.

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Your mom's house podcast ep 457

Agathocles - Razor Sharp Daggers