Hiero II (Greek: Ἱέρων Β΄; c. 308 BC – 215 BC), also called Hieron II, was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Greek Sicily, from 275 to 215 BC, and the illegitimate...

15°17′37″E / 37.059604°N 15.293694°E / 37.059604; 15.293694 The Altar of Hieron (Italian: Ara di Ierone) or the Great Altar of Syracuse is a monumental...

Archimedes and built around 240 BC by Archias of Corinth on the orders of Hieron II of Syracuse. The historian Moschion of Phaselis said that Syracusia could...

Messana. His grateful countrymen then choose Hieron as their king and tyrant, to be known as Hieron II. Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamon, from 241...

of the royal family (Hieron II himself, his wife Philistis, his daughter-in-law Nereis, daughter of Pyrrhus, and his son Gelo II), which has encouraged...

Pythagoreanism Harmonia (Gelo) (3rd. ct.), daughter of Gelo, the son of Hieron II, king of Syracuse Harmonia (comics), a DC Comics character based on the...

jet stream. The Greek writer Athenaeus of Naucratis described how King Hieron II commissioned Archimedes to design a huge ship, Syracusia, which could...

assigned to the island from c. 227 BC. The Kingdom of Syracuse under Hieron II remained an independent ally of Rome until its defeat in 212 BC during...

498-491 BC Gelon, 491-485 BC Hieron I, 485-466 BC Polyzalus, fl. c. 476 BC Artemisia I of Caria, fl. 480 BC Lygdamis II of Halicarnassus, fl. 469-444...

few years later, we find that Tauromenium had fallen into the power of Hieron II of Syracuse, and was employed by him as a stronghold in the war against...