Hiero I, or Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, 478 to 467 BC. Son of Deinomenes, and brother of Gelon. He sided with the Cumaeans in their battle against the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae 474 BC. Head of a man wearing royal diadem. Hierone. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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