Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Hieron

    historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 13 anchored passages

    also in the atlas: Hieron the place

    king of Syracuse · that man · the king of Syracuse who delights in horses · the man · your Aetnaean host

    in the texts

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Historical tyrant/king of Syracuse in Sicily, patron of the poem, praised as owner of the victorious horse Pherenicus and as host of poets and musicians at his table; also invoked later as ruler of Syracuse and Ortygia devoted to Demeter, Persephone, and Aetnaean Zeus.

    A god is set over your ambitions as a guardian, Hieron, and he devises with this as his concern.
    chapter 1
    Tell them to remember Syracuse and Ortygia, which Hieron rules with his pure scepter and with good counsels, while he attends on the worship of Demeter of the red feet, and on the festival of her daughter with her white horses, and on the might of Aetnaean Zeus.
    chapter 6
    Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts, when that horse ran swiftly beside the Alpheus, not needing to be spurred on in the race, and brought victory to his master, the king of Syracuse who delights in horses.
    chapter 1

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The historical ruler of Syracuse and founder of Aetna, father of Deinomenes, the central honoree of Pythian 1, 2, and 3.

    But now he has gone to battle in the manner of Philoctetes;
    chapter 1
    And you, son of Deinomenes, the West Locrian girl invokes you, standing outside her door:
    chapter 2
    Hieron, if you are skilled in understanding the true essence of words, you have learned and know the saying of former times:
    chapter 3

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Commander of Lacedaemonian mercenaries before the battle.

    Again, when both sides were arming themselves and it was already evident that there would be a battle, in the first place, after those who had provided the market and some baggage-carriers and such as did not wish to fight had set out to withdraw from the Boeotian army, the Lacedaemonian mercenaries under Hieron, the peltasts of the Phocians, and, among the horsemen, the Heracleots and Phliasians …
    chapter 6