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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Himera TempleCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 37.793 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Cefalu Nearest Village: Campofelice di Rocce
Latitude: 37.974000N Longitude: 13.824127E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ancient Temple in Sicily (Sicilia)
Remains of an ancient Greek temple measuring 22 metres by 56 metres with 6 by 14 columns. The deity to which the temple would have been dedicated is uncertain. After destroying many other temples and towns in Sicily in 409 BCE, the Carthaginians were forced to pay for this temple as part of a reparations agreement.
Himera (or Imera) was founded in 678 BC (BCE) by Greek colonists from Zancle, modern Messina. Zancle itself had been settled in the previous century by Greek colonists. It is probable that a prehistoric settlement already existed there, populated by Sicanians, and the same can be said of Cefalù. We know little of the history of the Himera area prior to the arrival of the Greeks, though the Phoenicians had established small trading settlements at Solunto and Palermo.
In 480 BC, the Carthaginians decided to invade the region. Hamilcar, a Carthaginian general who was an ancestor of the famous Hannibal who later fought the Romans, assembled an army said to number thirty thousand men to march upon Himera. The Greeks of Imera sought and received help from their fellow Greeks of Agrigento and Syracuse. The three combined Greek armies literally massacred the Carthaginians, so the Punic threat to Sicily's Greeks all but vanished, at least for the remainder of that century.
In 409 BC, Hannibal, grandson of Hamilcar, led a large Carthaginian army against Himera. This time, the Greeks were defeated and Himera was destroyed.
www.himera.it
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