Hiero the son of Dinomenes
Also known as: Hiero · Family: Syracuse · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 27
In Sicily, Hiero’s brother Gelon had Phormis in his army, and Phormis later served in Hiero’s army, where he displayed great valour and rose to great fortune. In the two latter Olympiads, Astylus of Croton entered as a Syracusan to ingratiate himself with Hiero; the people of Croton then turned Astylus’s house into a public prison and removed his statue from the temple of Lacinian Hera.
After Gelon’s death, the kingdom devolved upon Hiero. He had vowed offerings to Zeus for his horses’ victories, but died before giving them; his son Dinomenes the son of Hiero gave them instead.
Relationship record
Life events
- Phormis rose to great fortune after serving in Gelon and Hiero’s armies.(Book 5 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Sicily)
- Astylus’s house became a public prison and his statue was removed after he entered as a Syracusan.(Book 6 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Croton)
- With: Astylus of Croton Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero)
- “But because in the two latter Olympiads he entered himself as a Syracusan, to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes, the people of Croton voted that his house should be turned into a public prison, and removed his statue from the temple of Lacinian Hera.”
- After Gelon dies, the kingdom devolves upon his brother Hiero.(Book 8 · Chapter 42 · 📍 Syracuse)
- With: Gelon
- “and after his death the kingdom devolved upon his brother Hiero”
- After Hiero dies, Dinomenes gives his father’s vowed offerings to Olympian Zeus.(Book 8 · Chapter 42 · 📍 Olympia)
- With: Dinomenes the son of Hiero Zeus
- “as Hiero died before he could give to Olympian Zeus the offerings he had vowed for the victories of his horses, Dinomenes his son gave them instead.”
Book 5 · Chapter 27
- siblings with Gelon “in the army of Gelon, and afterwards in the army of Gelon’s brother Hiero”
- with Phormis (Phormis served in Hiero's army.) “and afterwards in the army of Gelon’s brother Hiero, displayed great valour”
Book 6 · Chapter 12
- child: Dinomenes the son of Hiero “They were not however sent by Hiero, but Dinomenes the son of Hiero offered them to the god.”
- siblings with Gelon (brother of Hiero the son of Dinomenes) “the tyrant of Syracuse after his brother Gelon.”
- with Onatas (interaction) “The chariot is by Onatas the Æginetan”
- with Calamis (interaction) “and the horses on both sides and the boys on them are by Calamis.”
Book 6 · Chapter 13
- with Astylus of Croton (Astylus acted to ingratiate himself with Hiero.) “But because in the two latter Olympiads he entered himself as a Syracusan, to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes”
- parent: Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero) (Dinomenes is Hiero's father.) “Hiero the son of Dinomenes”
Book 8 · Chapter 42
- child: Dinomenes the son of Hiero “as Hiero died before he could give to Olympian Zeus the offerings he had vowed for the victories of his horses, Dinomenes his son gave them instead.”
- siblings with Gelon “and after his death the kingdom devolved upon his brother Hiero”
- with Zeus (interaction) “Hiero having been formerly victor in your august contests, Olympian Zeus, once in the fourhorse chariot, and twice with a single horse, bestows on you these gifts”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.