HIERO II

d. c.215 b.c., Greek Sicilian ruler, tyrant of Syracuse (c.270–c.215 b.c.). He showed such ability and distinction after Pyrrhus left Sicily (275 b.c.) that he was made commander in chief of the Syracusans and was later chosen (c.265 b.c.) tyrant or king. Against the Mamertines, who had taken possession of Messana, Hiero's forces and those of the Carthaginians laid siege (265 b.c.), but when the Romans under Appius Claudius intervened successfully, the Syracusans withdrew, defeated. Hiero then entered into a treaty with the Romans, which recognized his dominion over SE Sicily and the east coast to Tauromenium (Taormina). As an ally of Rome, Syracuse furnished money and fighting forces against Carthage in the Punic Wars. Hiero faithfully abided by the terms of the peace. As a ruler he was just, prudent, and generous, and he was a patron of the arts. Archimedes, his relative, had his encouragement in the construction of great engines of warfare. The name also appears as Hieron II.

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A Commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos: Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character
Book by D. R. Shipley; University of Oxford, 1997
Subjects: Agesilaus--Ii--King Of Sparta, Biography As A Literary Form, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C--Historiography, Greece--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Plutarch--Agesilaus, Plutarch--Technique, Sparta (Extinct City)--Historiography, Sparta (Extinct City)--History
...Agesilaos, and he, also ineligible cf. Hiero above , might choose Kyniska, who would...4, v. 3. 7, vii. 7. 57, D.L. ii . 51-2, 58 , 7 in territory annexed from...the Philosophers , were educated at Sparta ii. 52 , 54 . 11 Whether they completed the...
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The Immense Majesty: A History of Rome and the Roman Empire
Book by Thomas W. Africa; Harlan Davidson, 1991
Subjects: Rome--History
...affairs was the Syracusan general Hiero who had risen from humble begin...success, he assumed a royal title as Hiero II and dominated the Greeks of western Sicily. For half a century, Hiero ruled Syracuse with benevolence and...
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Machiavelli's Ethics
Book by Erica Benner; Princeton University Press, 2009
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolao--1469-1527
...simply that Machiavellis remarks about a later Syracusan Hiero (Hiero II, 306 215 BC) echo the language and themes of Xenophons...That Are Acquired through Ones Own Arms and Virtue, Hiero is named as an example of a prince who eliminated the...
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A History of the Roman People
Book by Fritz M. Heichelheim, Cedric A. Yeo; Prentice-Hall, 1962
Subjects: Rome--Civilization, Rome--History
...after him, and later Carthage and Hiero II of Syracuse. The ancient Oriental...crops they pleased, whereas under Hiero II, just as in Ptolemaic Egypt, they...revised Latin translation of the laws of Hiero II, was used by the Romans not for crop...
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The Poems of Theocritus
Book by Anna Rist; University of North Carolina Press, 1978
Subjects: Country Life--Mediterranean Region--Poetry, Pastoral Poetry, Greek--Translations Into English, Theocritus--Translations Into English
...unsuccessful appeal for patronage to Hiero II of Syracuse see General Introduction...Simonides on whom Theocritus elaborates, Hiero could not fail to recall that both...received favour from his namesake, Hiero I of Syracuse. That Theocritus does...
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Chapter 3: Student Texts+b1:b9
Journal article by Paul Botley; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Grammar, Learning
...separately before 1530. XENOPHON Cyropaedia and Hiero were the only works of Xenophon to be printed...than its language, subsided thereafter. Hiero wis the first of Xenophons works to be...CaIIistus all made or owned copies.267 Hiero was die first work of Xenophon to be printed...
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"The Deeds of Great Men": Thoughts on the Literary Motives and Imaginary Actions of Machiavelli's New Prince
Journal article by Charles D. Tarlton; CLIO, Vol. 29, 2000
Subjects: Literature--Themes, motives, Machiavelli, Niccolo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political science--Literature, Politics and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Prince (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Citta di Castello (among Italians) and Hiero and Agathocles, both of Syracuse...Louis XII of France, or Pope Julius II, who are mentioned in the books opening...are as fictional as Cesare Borgia, Hiero, and Romulus in the midst of the text...
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Dreaming Holmberry-Lipped Tess: Aboriginal Reverie and Spectatorial Desire in Tess of the D'urbervilles
Journal article by Adam Gussow; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 32, 2000
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sexuality in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...by The Society of the Spectacle.(13) II Confrontations between Aboriginal society...landscape becomes `dead as a bearer of hiero-history," observes Cowan, "or when...Aborigines use to denote country devoid of its hiero-history" (p. 123). Flintcomb-Ashs...
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A Stele of Prince Anaziti in the Yozgat Museum
Journal article by Ilknur Tas, Mark Weeden; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010
Subjects: Inscriptions--Criticism and interpretation, Stele (Archaeology)--Observations
...groups can be interpreted as the numeral II, although the sense is very obscure. The...see Popko 2009: 36-45. (13.) SBo II 63 (Guterbock 1942: 1963); Dincol 2007...Die Konigssiegel von 1939 und die iibrigen Hiero-glyphensiegel. Berlin: Selbstverlag...
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Aristotle on Property
Journal article by Robert Mayhew; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 46, 1993
Subjects: Aristotle--Philosophy, Property--Philosophy
...As for functions (i) and (ii), the Athenian Constitution...no doubt describes function (ii). As for function (i), Aristotle...Philosophical Commentary on Politics II 1-5" Ph.D. diss., Georgetown...without pain. See Xenophon, Hiero. (24) The first remedy is...
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Teacher of Liberty: Classically Trained at His Mother's Knee, George Wythe Would Later Pass on His Knowledge to So Many Famous Founding Fathers That He Came to Be Called "Teacher of Liberty."
Magazine article by Joe J.D. Wolverton Ii; The New American, Vol. 22, February 6, 2006
Subjects: Educators--Appreciation, Educators--Political activity, Wythe, George--Appreciation, Wythe, George--Political activity
...Be Called "Teacher of Liberty.". by Joe J.D. Wolverton II Of all the notable patriots of Virginia whose names are subscribed...Juvenals Satires, and Quintilian, Euclid, Archimedes and Hiero, hydrostatic experiments and Coke on Littleton, Tristram Shandy...
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Using Technology to Implement Standards of Learning
Magazine article by Raymond G. Fox; Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Vol. 9, Winter 2000
Subjects: Educational accountability--Research, Educational technology--Study and teaching, Management--Innovations
...different means of intelligence processing abound. For example, Archimedes (ca. 287-212 BC) was requested by his ruler Hiero II to find a method for determining whether a crown was pure gold or alloyed with silver. He realized, as he stepped into...


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THE SPHINX EFFECT; the Pyramids, King Tutankhamun and a Luxury Nile Cruise Make Egypt the Star Attraction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 26, 2009
...preserved; so, too, are the hiero glyphics that reveal their secrets...the favourite wife of Ramses II. Of the kings around the 10th and 11th centuries BC, Ramses II was a very big cheese. He lived...built yet again by old Ramses II. His own was headed by four...
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Los Malos De la Pelicula
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 27, 2008
...que usa un Frisbee con filo de navaja. 9. Khan en "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) Solo la excelente actuacion de...la suya con frases como: " Desde el corazon del infierno, os hiero! Por amor al odio, escupo a vos mi ultimo aliento!" Montalban...


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encyclopedia articles on: Hiero II  - 6 results

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Hiero II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HIERO II d. c.215 b.c., Greek...Syracusans withdrew, defeated. Hiero then entered into a treaty...Carthage in the Punic Wars. Hiero faithfully abided by the terms...name also appears as Hieron II...
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Syracuse , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...government until tyranny was reestablished by Agathocles and Hiero II (4th 3d cent. b.c.). Hieros reign was relatively...and the poet Theocritus probably lived at the court of Hiero II. The mathematician and physicist Archimedes, born (287...
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Sicily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Phalaris at Acragas and of Gelon , Hiero I , and others at Syracuse. In the...and after the death (c.215) of Hiero II of Syracuse, virtually all of Sicily...1060 91), led by Roger I . Roger II became (1130) the first king of Sicily...
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Archimedes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...least two stories famous. In one story, he was asked by Hiero II to determine whether a crown was pure gold or was alloyed...than gold). In the other story he is said to have told Hiero, in illustration of the principle of the lever, "Give...
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Tyrant
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which facilitated the rise of military leaders with the people united behind them. Such Sicilian tyrants as Gelon , Hiero I , Hiero II , Dionysius the Elder , and Dionysius the Younger maintained lavish courts and were patrons of culture. The Thirty...
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