{"slug": "ducetius", "label": "Ducetius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducetius", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1264648", "qid": "Q1264648", "description": "5th-century BC Sicel chieftain", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-459, -439], "span_label": ["460 BCE", "440 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "agrigento", "label": "Agrigento", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -459, "year_label": "460 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, takes advantage of the confusion that follows the collapse of the tyranny in Syracuse and other Sicilian states. With the support of the Syracusan democracy, he drives out the colonists of the former tyrant Hieron from Catana and restores it to its original inhabitants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173290#Siculi", "title": "460 BC", "revid": 1354173290, "section": "Events › Siculi"}}, {"year": -458, "year_label": "459 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Sicilian town of Morgantina was destroyed by Ducetius, Hellenised leader of the Siculi (according to Diodorus Siculus).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354678972#Sicily", "title": "459 BC", "revid": 1354678972, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -452, "year_label": "453 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius founds the town of Palice", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360983885#Italy", "title": "453 BC", "revid": 1360983885, "section": "Events › Italy"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "After minor preliminary successes (including the capture of Inessa from its Greek colonists), Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Syracuse and Acragas. Ducetius flees to exile in Corinth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Sicily", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -445, "year_label": "446 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, the Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, returns from exile in Corinth to Sicily and colonises Cale Acte on the north coast with Greek and Siculi settlers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372038982#Sicily", "title": "446 BC", "revid": 1372038982, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -439, "year_label": "440 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238578#Deaths", "title": "440 BC", "revid": 1242238578, "section": "Deaths"}}]}