Anaxilas

This article is about the tyrant of Rhegium. For the comic poet, see Anaxilas (comic poet).

Anaxilas or Anaxilaus (Greek: Ἀναξίλας, Ἀναξίλαος), son of Cretines, was a tyrant of Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria) in Magna Graecia. He was originally from Messenia, a region in the Peloponnese.[1]

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