A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 20
om Kyme. Hieron was tyrant of Syracuse from478 to 467 B.C., in succession to his brother Gelon, and was oneof the most prominent figures of the age. Gelon had nobly upheldthe supremacy of the Greeks in the west by destroying a Carthaginianhost at Himera, in the same year and, as the tale went, on… … Pig. 7.—Etruscan Helmet Dedicated at Olympia by Hieron and the Syracdsans (No. 13). 1:4. earliest Greek colony in the west, was hard pressed by the neigh-bouring barbarians and by the civilised and powerful state of Etruria.The Greeks appealed for help to Hieron, and he sent them a fleet POLITICAL…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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