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Encyclopedia Britannica



HIERO I

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 453 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HIERO I . was the brother of
Gelo
 , and
tyrant
  of Syracuse from 478 to 467;6 B .C. During his reign he greatly increased the power of Syracuse. He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana (which he renamed Aetna) with
Dorians
 , concluded an alliance with Acragas (Agrigentum). and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilaus,
tyrant
  of Rhegium. His most important achievement was the defeat of the Etruscans at Cumae (474), by which he saved the Greeks of Campania. A bronze
helmet
  (now in the British Museum), with an inscription commemorating
' Perrone, De locis tl,eologicis, pt. i., sec. i. cap. 2.
2 Si quis dixerit in ecclesia catholica non esse hierarehiam divina ordinatione institutam, quae constat ex episcopis, presbyteris, et ministris:
anathema
  sit.the event, was dedicated at Olympia. Though despotic in his
rule
 
Hiero
  was a liberal patron of literature. He died at Catana in 467.
See Diod. Sic. xi. 38-67; Xenophon,
Hiero
 , 6. 2; E. Liibbert, Syrakus zur Zeit des Gelon and Hieron (1875); for his coins see
NUMISMATICS
  (section Sicily).


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