While today the Triskeles is perhaps more commonly thought of in connection to the Isle of Man, it in fact has been the symbol of Sicily for nearly 2500 years! It first started to be formulated as a symbol when Sicily was described as a triangle by Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War. In that account, Thucydides actually names the island Trinacria, and not Sicily! Trinacria means three sided or edged, and he gives the vertices as Pachynos in the South, Lilybaion in the West, and Peloris in the North. This idea of Sicily as a triangle would morph over time. Several hundred years later the dictator Agathocles according to Hill, in his piece Coins of Ancient Sicily, chose the triskeles as his “private signet”.