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• HIERO (strictly HIERON)

HIERO I  . was the See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• GELO

Gelo, and See also:

• TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

tyrant of See also:

• SYRACUSE
• SYRACUSE (Gr. Mvpaaovoat; Lat. Syracusae, Ital. Siracusa)

Syracuse from 478 to 467;6 B .C . During his reign he greatly increased the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of Syracuse . He removed the inhabitants of See also:

• NAXOS

Naxos and Catana to See also:

• LEONTINI (mod. Lentini)

Leontini, peopled Catana (which he renamed Aetna) with See also:

• DORIANS

Dorians, concluded an See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance with Acragas (See also:

• AGRIGENTUM (Gr. 'Arcpayas, mod. Girgenti (q.v.))

Agrigentum). and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilaus, tyrant of Rhegium . His most important achievement was the defeat of the Etruscans at See also:

• CUMAE (Gr. Kb/.m)

Cumae (474), by which he saved the Greeks of See also:

• CAMPANIA

Campania . A See also:

• BRONZE

bronze See also:

• HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet (now in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum), with an inscription commemorating ' See also:

• PERRONE, GIOVANNI (1794–1876)

Perrone, De locis tl,eologicis, pt. i., sec. i. cap . 2 . 2 Si quis dixerit in See also:

• ECCLESIA (Gr. EKKX ria, from Lc, out, and Ka)teiv, to call)

ecclesia catholica non esse hierarehiam divina ordinatione institutam, quae constat ex episcopis, presbyteris, et ministris: See also:

• ANATHEMA (from Gr. avarz6 'cu, to lift up)

anathema sit.the event, was dedicated at See also:

• OLYMPIA

Olympia . Though despotic in his See also:

• RULE

rule See also:

• HIERO (strictly HIERON)

Hiero was a liberal See also:

• PATRON

patron of literature . He died at Catana in 467 . See Diod . Sic. xi . 38-67; See also:

• XENOPHON

Xenophon, Hiero, 6 .

2; E . Liibbert, Syrakus zur Zeit See also:

• DES

des Gelon and Hieron (1875); for his coins see See also:

• NUMISMATICS
• NUMISMATICS (Lat. numisma, nomisma, a coin; from the Greek, derived from voj4 u', to use according to law)

NUMISMATICS (See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily) .