Hiero I of Syracuse

Hiero I. ( Ἱέρων Hiero, Hiero Latin; † 466 BC in Catana ) from the family of Deinomeniden was tyrant of Gela and Syracuse.

485 BC, Hiero tyrant of Gela, 478 BC he succeeded his brother Gelon as tyrant of Syracuse to. Hieron was a power-conscious politicians and the military. He formed an alliance with Akragas ( Agrigento ), uniting almost all of Sicily. He also attacked in the political debates in southern Italy, where he supported the interests of the Locrians against Anaxilaos, the tyrant of Rhegium. He hit 474 BC together with Aristodemus of Cumae ( Cuma ) the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae and thus put a stop to their expansion into this space. He took 476 BC successfully in the Olympic Games in Olympia ( Greece) part and won in the discipline chariot races. 472 BC he defeated Thrasydäus, ruler of Agrigentum, and made ​​the city of Syracuse dependent.

Hiero I founded several Syracusan colonies, moved the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana in Lentini, and peopled Catana (which he called Aetna ) with Dorians. Hiero I went down in history as a patron of Greek culture in Syracuse. So he moved poets as Epicharmus, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar, Bacchylides and to his court.

Hiero died in 466 or 467 BC and bequeathed his kingdom to his brother Thrasybulus.

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  • Diodorus Siculus xi. 38-67;
  • Xenophon, Hiero, 6, 2;
  • Eduard Luebbert, Syracuse at the time of Gelon and Hieron (1875 );
  • Greek ( Ancient )
  • Rulers ( Syracuse)
  • Sicilian
  • Tyrant ( Sicily)
  • Car race
  • Olympic champion ( Antiquity)
  • Born in the 6th century BC
  • Died 466 BC
  • Man
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