Caption:
Hiero II, Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, from 275 to 215 BC. Former general of Pyrrhus of Epirus and important figure of the First Punic War. Head of a young man in laurel crown. Hierone. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.