Himera
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Sicilian territory raided by the Athenians in concert with Sicel allies.
The Athenians in Sicily the same winter made a descent from their ships on the territory of Himera, in concert with the Sicels, who had made an irruption on its borders from the interior;
Himera was founded from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, and Saco, and most of those who went to the colony were Chalcidians, though there were also united with them some exiles from Syracuse, who had been defeated in a strife of factions—the Mylaetidae, as they are called.
And so coasting along Sicily, with the shore on their left hand, on the side towards the Tyrrhene gulf, they landed at Himera, which is the only Grecian city in that part of the island.
The Histories
Sicilian city from which Terillus was expelled by Theron, precipitating the Carthaginian invasion.
even though he was to be under Lacedaemonian authority, Gelon would still have aided the Greeks had it not been for Terillus son of Crinippus, the tyrant of Himera.
Olympian
Sicilian city, adopted home of the exiled runner Ergoteles, for whose protection and power the poet prays to Fortune.
I entreat you, child of Zeus the Deliverer, saving Fortune, keep protecting Himera, and make her powerful.
Phaedrus
Sicilian city identified as the home of Stesichorus.
but this which I shall speak is by Stesichorus, son of Euphemus (Man of pious Speech) of Himera (Town of Desire).
Hellenica
A Greek city in Sicily captured by the Carthaginians under Hannibal.
So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians, under the leadership of Hannibal, made an expedition against Sicily, with an army of one hundred thousand men, and in the course of three months captured two Greek cities, Selinus and Himera.