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	Encyclopedia: Hiero II of Syracuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelo.
		Hiero at once joined the Punic leader Hanno, who had recently landed in Sicily; but being defeated by the consul Appius Claudius Caudex, he withdrew to Syracuse.
		Pressed by the Roman forces, in 263 he was compelled to conclude a treaty with Rome, by which he was to rule over the south-east of Sicily and the eastern coast as far as Tauromenium (Polybius i.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hiero-II-of-Syracuse (1198 words)

	Royal Family of Syracuse (Hiero II)
		Hiero had observed that the dispatch of a Syracusan army on an expedition under the command of the supreme magistrates invariably resulted in quarrels among the leaders and the outbreaks of revolutionary activity of some kind.
		This Hiero made an alliance with Pyrrhus the son of Aeacides, sealing it by the marriage of Gelo his son and Nereis the daughter of Pyrrhus.
		Hiero is in the first place a more interesting subject [than his grandson Hieronymos] because he established himself as the ruler of Syracuse and her allies entirely through his own abilities, for he owed neither wealth, nor reputation nor anything else to Fortune.
	www.mcs.drexel.edu /~crorres/Archimedes/Family/Hiero.html (1968 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hiero II (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		B.C.) that he was made commander in chief of the Syracusans and was later chosen (c.265
		Hiero then entered into a treaty with the Romans, which recognized his dominion over SE Sicily and the east coast to Tauromenium (Taormina).
		Hiero faithfully abided by the terms of the peace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hiero2.html (263 words)

	Hiero I of Syracuse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hiero I was the brother of (Click link for more info and facts about Gelo) Gelo and tyrant of (The Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse) Syracuse from (Click link for more info and facts about 478) 478 to 467 BC.
		A bronze helmet (now in the (Click link for more info and facts about British Museum) British Museum), with an inscription commemorating the event, was dedicated at Olympia.
		Though despotic in his rule Hiero was a liberal patron of literature.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/hiero_i_of_syracuse.htm (169 words)

	Hiero I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A noted patron of literature, Hiero had Simonides, Pindar, and Aeschylus at his court.
		The greatest glory of his career was his part in the defeat of the Etruscans at sea at Cumae in 474
		B.C. As a ruler Hiero was a despot.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hi/Hiero1.html (132 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicily
		Gelon's brother Hiero being master of Gela and married to the daughter of Theon, tyrant of Acragas, Hiero succeeded him and defeated the Etruscans, enemies of the Cumani (474).
		But soon after Hiero's death (471) his brother Thrasybulus was expelled; democracy triumphed at Syracuse and the other Greek cities, and Greek unity was at an end.
		Ducetius, one of the chiefs of the Siculi, who were still masters of the interior, then conceived the hope of uniting his race and expelling all the foreigners from Sicily.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13772a.htm (5324 words)

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	The Internet Classics Archive \| Hiero by Xenophon
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