According to legend, a lawgiver in this region named Charondas accidentally violated his own law by entering an assembly while armed, so he stabbed himself with his sword. A ruler in this region commissioned a bronze statue of a charioteer to celebrate a victory in games at Delphi; that ruler in this region was Polyzalus. In a city in this region, enslaved natives called killyrioi (“kill-LURE-ee-oy”) tilled the soil for the foreign gamoroi (“guh-MORE-oy”) elite. A ruler in this region was supposedly burnt alive in the brazen bull that an Athenian had made for him. It’s not Cilicia (“sih-LICK-ee-uh”), but early Greek colonists founded this region’s cities of Selinus (“seh-LEE-nus”), Leontini (“lee-on-TEE-nee”), and Gela (“GEH-luh”). The tyrant Theron of Acragas (“a-KRUH-gas”) allied with Gelon to defeat an attack on this region at Himera. Trade prospered between this region and the neighboring mainland cities of Magna Graecia (“MAGH-nuh GRY-kee-uh”). For 10 points, name this island controlled in the archaic period by tyrants, including one at Syracuse. ■END■
ANSWER: Sicily [or Sicilia; accept Greek Sicily; accept Catania until “commissioned” is read; prompt on Magna Graecia until read; prompt on Gela until read; prompt on Acragas until read; prompt on Syracuse until read] (The enslaved killyrioi were found in Syracuse. Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, was burned in the bull. Acragas was a forerunner of modern Agrigento.)
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