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Encyclopedia Britannica



HIMERA

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 476 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HIMERA , a city on the north
coast
  of Sicily, on a hill above the
east
  bank of the Himeras Septentrionalis. It was founded in 648 B.C. by the Chalcidian inhabitants of Zancle, in company with many Syracusan exiles. Early in the 5th
century
  the
tyrant
  Terillas, son-in-law of Anaxilas of Rhegium and Zancle; appealed to the Carthaginians, who came to his assistance, but were utterly defeated by Gelon of Syracuse in 48o B.c.on the same day, it is said, as the battle of Salamis. Thrasydaeus, son of Theron of Agrigentum, seems to have ruled the city oppressively, but an
appeal
  made to
Hiero
  of Syracuse, Gelon's brother, was betrayed by him to Theron; the latter massacred all his enemies and in the following year resettled the town. In 415 it refused to admit the Athenian
fleet
  and remained an ally of Syracuse. In 408 the Carthaginian invading army under Hannibal, after capturing Selinus, invested and took Himera
and razed the city to the ground,
founding
  a new town close to the hot springs (Thermae Himeraeae), 8 m. to the west. The only relic of the ancient town now visible above ground is a small portion (four columns,
lower
 
diameter
  7 ft.) of a Doric temple, the date of which (whether before or after 480 B.C.) is uncertain.


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