Agrigento#Roman period

Akragas was founded on a plateau overlooking the sea, with two nearby rivers, the Hypsas and the Acragas, after which the settlement was originally named. A ridge, which offered a degree of natural fortification, links a hill to the north called Colle di Girgenti with another, called Rupe Atenea, to the east. According to Thucydides, it was founded around 582–580 BC by Greek colonists from Gela in eastern Sicily, with further colonists from Crete and Rhodes. The founders ({{lang|grc-Latn|oikistai}}) of the new city were Aristonous and Pystilus. It was the last of the major Greek colonies in Sicily to be founded.{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|pp=72–73}}

The territory under Akragas's control expanded to comprise the whole area between the Platani and the Salso, and reached deep into the Sicilian interior. Greek literary sources connect this expansion with military campaigns, but archaeological evidence indicates that this was a much longer-term process which reached its peak only in the early fifth century BC.{{cite journal |last1=Adornato |first1=Gianfranco |title=Phalaris: Literary Myth or Historical Reality? Reassessing Archaic Akragas |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=2012 |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=483–506 |doi=10.3764/aja.116.3.0483 |s2cid=190232495}} Most other Greek settlements in Sicily experienced similar territorial expansion in this period.{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|pp=94–101}} Excavations at a range of sites in this region inhabited by the indigenous Sican people, such as Monte Sabbucina, Gibil-Gabil, Vasallaggi, San Angelo Muxano, and Mussomeli, show signs of the adoption of Greek culture.{{sfn|de Miro|1962|pp=143–144}} It is disputed how much of this expansion was carried out by violence and how much by commerce and acculturation.{{sfn|de Miro|1962|pp=143–144}} The territorial expansion provided land for the Greek settlers to farm, native slaves to work these farms,{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|pp=56–60}} and control of the overland route from Acragas to the city of Himera on the northern coast of Sicily.{{sfn|de Waele|1971|p=6}} This was the main land route from the Straits of Sicily to the Tyrrhenian Sea and Acragas' control of it was a key factor in its economic prosperity in the sixth and fifth centuries BC, which became proverbial. Famously, Plato, upon seeing the living standard of the inhabitants, was said to have remarked that "they build like they intend to live forever, yet eat like this is their last day."{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwZpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA307 |title=The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths |date=14 February 2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400884674}} Perhaps as a result of this wealth, Acragas was one of the first communities in Sicily to begin minting its own coinage, around 520 BC.

Around 570 BC, the city came under the control of Phalaris, a semi-legendary figure, who was remembered as the archetypal tyrant, said to have killed his enemies by burning them alive inside a bronze bull. In the ancient literary sources, he is linked with the military campaigns of territorial expansion, but this is probably anachronistic. He ruled until around 550 BC.{{sfn|de Waele|1971|pp=68–69, 77–78}} The political history of Acragas in the second half of the sixth century is unknown, except for the names of two leaders, Alcamenes and Alcander.{{sfn|de Waele|1971|p=166}} Acragas also expanded westwards over the course of the sixth century BC, leading to a rivalry with Selinus, the next Greek city to the west. The Selinuntines founded the city of Heraclea Minoa at the mouth of the Platani river, halfway between the two settlements, in the mid-sixth century BC, but the Acragantines conquered it around 500 BC.{{sfn|de Miro|1962|pp=144–146}}

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Theron, a member of the Emmenid family, made himself tyrant of Acragas around 488 BC. He formed an alliance with Gelon, tyrant of Gela and Syracuse. Around 483 BC, Theron invaded and conquered Himera, Acragas' neighbour to the north. The tyrant of Himera, Terillus joined his son-in-law, Anaxilas of Rhegium, and the Selinuntines in calling on the Carthaginians to come and restore Terillus to power. The Carthaginians did invade in 480 BC, the first of the Greco-Punic Wars, but they were defeated by the combined forces of Theron and Gelon at the Battle of Himera. As a result, Acragas was affirmed in its control of the central portion of Sicily, an area of around 3,500 km².{{sfn|de Waele|1971|pp=52, 109–115}}{{cite book |last1=Asheri |first1=David |editor1-last=Boardman |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Hammond |editor2-first=N. G. L. |editor3-last=Lewis |editor3-first=D. M. |editor4-last=Ostwald |editor4-first=M. |title=The Cambridge Ancient History IV |date=1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=766–776 |edition=2 |chapter=Carthaginians and Greeks}}{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|pp=106–108}} A number of enormous construction projects were carried out in the Valle dei Templi at this time, including the Temple of Olympian Zeus, which was one of the largest Greek temples ever built, and the construction of a massive Kolymbethra reservoir. According to Diodorus Siculus, they were built in commemoration of the Battle of Himera, using the prisoners captured in the war as slave labour. Archaeological evidence indicates that the boom in monumental construction actually began before the battle, but continued in the period after it. A major reconstruction of the city walls on a monumental scale also took place in this period.{{cite book |last1=Fiorentini |first1=Graziella |last2=de Miro |first2=Ernesto |title=Agrigento V. Le fortificazioni. |date=2009 |publisher=Gangemi |location=Roma |isbn=978-88-492-1686-8 |pages=63–65}} Theron sent teams to compete in the Olympic games and other Panhellenic competitions in mainland Greece. Several poems by Pindar and Simonides commemorated victories by Theron and other Acragantines, which provide insights into Acragantine identity and ideology at this time.{{cite journal |last1=Pavlou |first1=Maria |title=Pindar Olympian 3: Mapping Acragas on the Periphery of the Earth |journal=The Classical Quarterly |date=2010 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=313–326 |doi=10.1017/S0009838810000182 |s2cid=170885878}} Greek literary sources generally praise Theron as a good tyrant, but accuse his son Thrasydaeus, who succeeded him in 472 BC, of violence and oppression. Shortly after Theron's death, Hiero I of Syracuse (brother and successor of Gelon) invaded Acragas and overthrew Thrasydaeus. The literary sources say that Acragas then became a democracy, but in practice it seems to have been dominated by the civic aristocracy.{{sfn|Westermark|2018|pp=14–15}}

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The period after the fall of the Emmenids is not well-known. An oligarchic group called "the thousand" was in power for a few years in the mid-fifth century BC, but was overthrown – the literary tradition gives the philosopher Empedocles a decisive role in this revolution, but some modern scholars have doubted this.{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|pp=210–211}} In 451 BC, Ducetius, leader of a Sicel state opposed to the expansion of Syracuse and other Greeks into the interior of Sicily, invaded Acragantine territory and conquered an outpost called Motyum. The Syracusans defeated and captured Ducetius in 450, but subsequently allowed him to go into exile. Outraged by this comparatively light punishment, the Acragantines went to war with Syracuse. They were defeated in a battle on the Salso river, which left Syracuse the pre-eminent power in eastern Sicily. The defeat was serious enough that Acragas ceased to mint coinage for a number of years.{{sfn|Westermark|2018|pp=16–17}}

Ancient sources considered Acragas to be a very large city at this time. Diodorus Siculus says that the population was 200,000 people, of which 20,000 were citizens. Diogenes Laertius put the population at an incredible 800,000. Some modern scholars have accepted Diodorus' numbers,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74JI2UlcU8AC&q=akragas+in+population+size&pg=PA7 |title=International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe |first1=Trudy |last1=Ring |first2=Robert M. |last2=Salkin |first3=Sharon La |last3=Boda |date=1 January 1994 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781884964022 |access-date=19 September 2016 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDwDaDLjdyIC&q=akragas+in+population+size&pg=PA432 |title=A Commentary on Thucydides: Books IV-V.24 |first=Simon |last=Hornblower |date=6 January 2005 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=9780199276257 |access-date=19 September 2016 |via=Google Books}} but they seem to be far too high. Jos de Waele suggests a population of 16,000–18,000 citizens,{{cite book |title=Φιλίας χάριν: Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni. |date=1980 |publisher=G. Bretschneider |location=Roma |isbn=978-8885007390 |pages=747–760 |chapter=La popolazione di Akragas antica}} while Franco de Angelis estimates a total population of around 30,000-40,000.{{sfn|de Angelis|2016|p=197}}

When Athens undertook the Sicilian Expedition against Syracuse from 415 to 413 BC, Acragas remained neutral. However, it was sacked by the Carthaginians in 406 BC. Acragas never fully recovered its former status, though it revived following the invasion of Timoleon in the late fourth century onwards and large-scale construction took place in the Hellenistic period. During the early 3rd century BC, a tyrant called Phintias declared himself king in Akragas, also controlling a variety of other cities. His kingdom was however not long-lived.

The city was disputed between the Romans and the Carthaginians during the First Punic War. The Romans laid siege to the city in 262 BC and captured it after defeating a Carthaginian relief force in 261 BC and sold the population into slavery. Although the Carthaginians recaptured the city in 255 BC the final peace settlement gave Punic Sicily and with it Akragas to Rome. It suffered badly during the Second Punic War (218–201 BC) when both Rome and Carthage fought to control it. The Romans eventually captured Akragas in 210 BC and renamed it Agrigentum, although it remained a largely Greek-speaking community for centuries thereafter. It became prosperous again under Roman rule.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} In the 2nd century BC, Scipio Africanus Minor bestowed upon the city a statue of Apollo by Myron, housed in the Temple of Asclepius as a symbol of their alliance during the Third Punic War.

Cicero noted Agrigentum as a civitas decumana and socius, highlighting its loyal service in the Third Punic War. He ranked Agrigentum among Sicily's largest cities, emphasizing its pivotal port and role in Roman governance, including hosting the governor's assize circuit. Additionally, he mentioned a sizable population of Roman citizens coexisting harmoniously with the Greek populace, likely engaged in commerce linked to the port.

An inscription shows that the city was promoted to the status of colonia by Septimius Severus and renamed "Colonia Septimia Augusta Agrigentorum."{{cite journal |last1=Pfuntner |first1=Laura |date=2016 |title=Celebrating the Severans Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily |journal=Latomus |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=437–438}}

A resilient Christian community endured into late antiquity, although archaeological evidence suggests a decline in activity after the 7th century, possibly due to disrupted trade routes following the Arab conquest of Carthage in AD 698.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city successively passed into the hands of the Vandalic Kingdom, the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy, and then the Byzantine Empire. During this period the inhabitants of Agrigentum largely abandoned the lower parts of the city and moved to the former acropolis, at the top of the hill. The reasons for this move are unclear but were probably related to the destructive coastal raids of the Saracens and other peoples around this time. In 828 AD the Saracens captured the diminished remnant of the city; the Arabic form of its name became {{lang|ar|كِركَنت}} ({{transliteration|ar|ALA|Kirkant}}) or {{lang|ar|جِرجَنت}} ({{transliteration|ar|ALA|Jirjant}}).

Following the Norman conquest of Sicily, the city changed its name to the Norman version Girgenti.{{cite web |url=http://www.esplorasicilia.com/guida-turistica/agrigento/storia-di-agrigento.php |title=La Storia di Agrigento - Sicilia |first=Esplora |last=Sicilia |access-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016124714/http://www.esplorasicilia.com/guida-turistica/agrigento/storia-di-agrigento.php |archive-date=16 October 2017 |url-status=dead}} In 1087, Norman Count Roger I established a Latin bishopric in the city. Normans built the Castello di Agrigento to control the area. The population declined during much of the medieval period but revived somewhat after the 18th century.

The first record of Jews mentioned in Agrigento is when, under the pontificate of Gregory the Great, several Jews in Agrigento were converted to Christianity. The community is mentioned in the Cairo Geniza circa 1060. The Jewish presence in Agrigento did not survive the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, as at the time the territory was under Spanish rule.{{cite web |title=Agrigento, Italy |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/agrigento |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=2 July 2024}}{{cite web |title=Agrigento |url=https://jguideeurope.org/en/region/italy/sicily/agrigento/ |website=JGuide Europe |access-date=2 July 2024}}

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In 1860, as in the rest of Sicily, the inhabitants supported the arrival of Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Expedition of the Thousand (one of the most dramatic events of the Unification of Italy) which marked the end of Bourbon rule.{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Expedition-of-the-Thousand |title=Expedition of the Thousand: Italian campaign |access-date=19 September 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/346847 |title=Garibaldi and the 1,000 |access-date=19 September 2016 |newspaper=The Economist}} In 1927, Benito Mussolini through the "Decree Law n. 159, 12 July 1927",{{cite web |url=http://augusto.agid.gov.it/ |title=Augusto – Automazione Gazzetta Ufficiale Storica |access-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031123801/http://augusto.agid.gov.it/ |archive-date=31 October 2016 |url-status=dead}} introduced the current Italianized version of the Latin name.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agrigento_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ |title=Agrigento |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana |access-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026015409/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agrigento_(Enciclopedia-Italiana) |archive-date=26 October 2019 |url-status=dead}} The decision remains controversial as a symbol of Fascism and the eradication of local history. Following the suggestion of Andrea Camilleri, a Sicilian writer of Agrigentine origin, the historic city centre was renamed to the Sicilian name "Girgenti" in 2016.{{Cite news |url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/16_aprile_27/agrigento-ritorno-passato-sindaco-si-chiamera-girgenti-ma-solo-centro-storico-f5904060-0ca8-11e6-a4db-66a817deaada.shtml?refresh_ce-cp |title=Agrigento, ritorno al passatoIl sindaco: si chiamerà Girgenti (ma solo nel centro storico) |work=Corriere della Sera |access-date=2018-12-03 |language=it-IT}} The city suffered a number of destructive bombing raids during World War II.

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Agrigento is a major tourist centre due to its archaeological legacy. It also serves as an agricultural centre for the surrounding region. Sulphur and potash were mined locally from Minoan times until the 1970s, and were exported worldwide from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher Empedocles, who lived in ancient Akragas). In 2010, the unemployment rate in Agrigento was 19.2%,{{cite web |date=2 April 2011 |url=http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/economia/2011-04-01/agrigento-investimenti-palo-205839.shtml?uuid=AaBHtQLD |title=Agrigento, investimenti al palo |publisher=Il Sole 24 ORE |access-date=2013-03-25}} almost twice the national average.

In Agrigento there are three railway stations: the Agrigento Centrale station, the Agrigento Bassa station and the Tempio Vulcano station, managed by RFI. The tourist trains, organized by the FS Italiane Foundation, which run along the Temple Tourist Railway, touch all three stations: this service is active mainly in the summer months and connects the capital with the city of Porto Empedocle and the archaeological park. The ordinary railway service, however, involves only the Agrigento Centrale and Agrigento Bassa stations.[https://www.trenitalia.com/content/dam/tcom/allegati/trenitalia_2014/informazioni/orario_digitale/RegionaleCalabria_Sicilia_light.pdf Regional digital timetable - page 134]trenitalia.com

In December 2023, the new railway connection between the city of temples and the "Falcone e Borsellino" airport in Palermo was inaugurated. The Trenitalia regional train begins on Monday 11 December with its first service and, at the request of the Sicilian Region, 4 new daily services are operational which connect Agrigento to the Palermo airport in approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.[https://palermo.mobilita.org/2023/12/11/il-nuovo-treno-agrigento-aeroporto-di-palermo-di-trenitalia/ Il nuovo treno Agrigento – Aeroporto di Palermo di Trenitalia]palermo.mobilita.org

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Ancient Akragas covers a huge area—much of which is still unexcavated today—but is exemplified by the famous Valle dei Templi ("Valley of the Temples", a misnomer, as it is a ridge, rather than a valley). This comprises a large sacred area on the south side of the ancient city where seven monumental Greek temples in the Doric style were constructed during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Now excavated and partially restored, they constitute some of the largest and best-preserved ancient Greek buildings outside of Greece itself. They are listed as a World Heritage Site.

The best-preserved of the temples are two very similar buildings traditionally attributed to the goddesses Hera and Concordia (though there is no evidence for this{{cite web |url=https://www.parcovalledeitempli.it/category/archeologia/ |title=Archeologia – Parco Valle dei Templi Agrigento}}). The latter temple is remarkably intact, due to its having been converted into a Christian church in 597 AD. Both were constructed to a peripteral hexastyle design. The area around the Temple of Concordia was later re-used by early Christians as a catacomb, with tombs hewn out of the rocky cliffs and outcrops.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

• Theron of Acragas, winner of a chariot race and recipient of Pindar's second and third Olympian Odes. More notably was a tyrant of Acragas in 488 BC.
• Empedocles (5th century BC), the Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, was a citizen of ancient Akragas.
• Tellias ({{langx|grc|Τελλίας}}) of Akragas, described in ancient sources as a hospitable man; when 500 horsemen were billeted with him during the winter, he gave each a tunic and cloak.{{cite web |url=https://topostext.org/work/240#tau.272 |title=Suda Encyclopedia, tau.272}}{{cite web |url=https://topostext.org/work/240#§%20al.731 |title=Suda Encyclopedia, al.731}}
• Karkinos ({{langx|grc|Καρκίνος}}) of Akragas, a tragedian{{cite web |url=https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/394 |title=Suda, kappa, 394}}
• Tigellinus (born {{circa}} AD 10), a prefect of the Praetorian Guard and infamous associate of the Emperor Nero, belonged to a family of Greek descent in Agrigento, although he may have been born in Scyllaceum in Southern Italy, where his father is supposed to have lived in exile.[https://www.livius.org/articles/person/ofonius-tigellinus/ Ofonius Tigellinus Livius.org]
• Faraj ben Salim (13th century), Jewish physician and translator for Charles I of Anjou.
• Paolo Girgenti (1767–1815), a painter active in Naples who served as president of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, was born in Agrigento.
• Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for literature, was born at contrada u Càvusu in Agrigento.
• Giovanni Leone (b. 1967), an Italian geophysicist and volcanologist, was born in Agrigento.
• Vinnie Paz (born 1977), the Italian-American rapper and lyricist behind Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks.
• Frankie Carbo (1904–1976), the Italian-American New York City Mafia soldier in the Lucchese crime family and promoter in professional boxing.
• Larry Page (born 1973), co-founder of Google, became an honorary citizen of Agrigento on August 4, 2017.{{Cite news |url=http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/tlc/2017/08/04/larry-page-cittadino-onorario-agrigento_03154c74-46ad-448b-b0f1-4841e07124e3.html |title=Larry Page di Google cittadino onorario di Agrigento - Tlc |date=2017-08-04 |work=ANSA.it |access-date=2017-09-27 |language=it}}

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy}}

Agrigento is twinned with:

• {{flagicon|RUS}} Perm, Russia{{cite web |title=Agrigento partecipa alle celebrazioni per il 295esimo anniversario della fondazione di Perm |url=https://www.scrivolibero.it/agrigento-partecipa-alle-celebrazioni-per-il-295esimo-anniversario-della-fondazione-di-perm/ |website=scrivolibero.it |publisher=Scrivo Libero News |language=it |date=2018-06-14 |access-date=2021-03-23}}
• {{flagicon|USA}} Tampa, United States{{cite web |title=Delegazione di Tampa in visita al Comune di Agrigento |url=https://www.comune.agrigento.it/delegazione-di-tampa-in-visita-al-comune-di-agrigento/ |website=comune.agrigento.it |publisher=Agrigento |language=it |date=2018-05-03 |access-date=2021-03-23 |archive-date=2019-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216194053/https://www.comune.agrigento.it/delegazione-di-tampa-in-visita-al-comune-di-agrigento/ |url-status=dead}}
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Valenciennes, France{{cite web |title=Valenciennes Les Italiens et leurs descendants sont ici chez eux |url=https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/600559/article/2019-06-18/les-italiens-et-leurs-descendants-sont-ici-chez-eux |website=lavoixdunord.fr |publisher=La Voix du Nord |language=fr |date=2019-06-18 |access-date=2021-03-23}}

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File:Agrigento-stazione.JPG|Central train station

File:Agrigento PostOffice 009 8913.jpg|Central post office

File:"17 Säle des Museums bieten eine Übersicht über die archäologischen Funde der Umgebung" 08.jpg|Archeological Museum

File:Cattedrale di San Gerlando.jpg|The cathedral

File:Provincia Regionale Agrigento, Sicily, Italy - panoramio.jpg|Prefecture's seat

File:Il Giardino della Kolymbethra, Bene FAI nella Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.jpg|Kolymbethra Garden

File:92100 Agrigento, Province of Agrigento, Italy - panoramio (27).jpg|St. Peter's Church

File:Agrigento AG, Sicily, Italy - panoramio (1).jpg|Old city centre

File:Valle dei Templi, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.jpg|Valle dei Templi

File:Agrigento al Tramonto.jpg|City centre

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• Siege of Akragas (406 BC)
• Agrigentum inscription
• Battle of Agrigentum (456)
• List of mayors of Agrigento
• Sulfur mining in Sicily

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• {{citation |chapter=Agrigento |title=Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names |author-link=John Everett-Heath |first=John |last=Everett-Heath |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005}}
• {{citation |chapter=Agrigento |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |year=2006}}
• {{cite book |last1=de Angelis |first1=Franco |title=Archaic and classical Greek Sicily : a social and economic history |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=9780195170474}}
• {{cite journal |last1=de Miro |first1=E. |title=La fondazione di Agrigento e l'ellenizzazione del territorio fra il Salso e il Platani |journal=Kokalos |date=1962 |volume=8 |pages=122–152}}
• {{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Alexandra |title=Passionate Patron: The Life of Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento |date=2009 |publisher=Archaeopress |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-905739-28-8}}
• {{cite book |last1=de Waele |first1=J. A. |title=Acragas Graeca : die historische Topographie des griechischen Akragas auf Sizilien |date=1971 |publisher=Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk |location='s-Gravenhage |oclc=258143697}}
• {{cite book |last1=Westermark |first1=Ulla |title=The coinage of Akragas c. 510-406 BC |date=2018 |publisher=Uppsala University |location=Uppsala |author-link=Ulla Westermark |isbn=978-91-513-0269-0 |editor-link=Ulla Westermark}}

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{{EB1911 poster|Agrigentum}}

{{EB1911 poster|Girgenti}}

• [http://www.yairkarelic.com/Albums/Sicily_agrigento/index.html Yair Karelic's photos of the Valley of the Temples]
• [https://www.lavalledeitempli.it/en/itineraries/agrigento/historical-center/ Agrigento Old Town]

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