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Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin.

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Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled.

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At the end of the First Punic War (241) (See 264–241), Hiero's kingdom encompassed about a quarter of Sicily; most of the rest became Rome's possession.

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Sicily (excluding Hiero's Syracusan kingdom in the east), and Sardinia and Corsica together, became Rome's first two provinces, administered by two new praetors.

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The latter, entering a bath-tub one day, and noticing that he displaced a quantity of water equal in bulk to that of his body, saw that this discovery would give him a mode of determining the bulk and specific gravity of King Hiero's crown.

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

Thus Sicily, with the exception of Hiero's domain, was made a slave of Rome, and from this time its people were on a friendly footing with the

Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Cassius Dio

He there pays a high compliment to Hiero's taste in poetry (ver. 3 ff.).

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It is tolerably certain that the three poets were visitors at Hiero's court at about the same time: Pindar and Bacchylides wrote odes of the same kind in his honour; and there was a tradition that he preferred the younger poet.

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But soon after Hiero's death (471) his brother Thrasybulus was expelled; democracy triumphed at Syracuse and the other Greek cities, and Greek unity was at an end.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Had they not been enemies it is a matter of indifference whether I maltreated Syracuse now or in Hiero's lifetime.

The History of Rome, Vol. IV 1905