Adranon

Adranon (also Hadranum , today Adrano ) was an ancient city in Sicily .

Adranon was born around 400 BC. BC by Dionysius I of Syracuse near the Siculian sanctuary for the god Adranos , who was also to become the city god, on the Adranos River, a tributary of the Symaithos , on the western slope of Etna .

Near Adranon, Timoleon struck Hiketas of Syracuse in league with the Adranonians . 263 BC Chr. The city was conquered by the Romans and received the ius Latii . Significant remains of the ancient settlement still exist today.

Near the city was the Siculian center of Mendolito . Here they found inscriptions , coins and prehistoric pottery. The finds are now in the Siculian collection in the museum on the Normannenburg in Adrano.

literature

Edward Herbert Bunbury: Adranum . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
Christian Hülsen : Adranon . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 405.
P. Pelagatti: Adranon . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

37.6625 14.836111111111Coordinates: 37 ° 40 ′ N , 14 ° 50 ′ E