Hykkara

Hykkara was a Sican place in Sicily in antiquity .

Hykkara was on the north coast of Sicily, about 20 kilometers west of Panormos, today's Palermo , on Monte D'Oro , north of Montelepre . In the year 415 BC During the Peloponnesian War , the city was conquered by the Athenians because it was hostile to the city of Segesta , which was allied with Athens. The residents were enslaved. The place is best known for the later hetaera Lais . Today there are still some ruins near Carini . Hykkara was the seat of a bishop; The titular Hyccarum of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .

To explain the origin of the name Hykkara , local writers resorted to a legend according to which the mythical king Kokalus commissioned the Daidalos with the construction of the city in order to be able to secure his power over Segesta. Daedalus gave the city its name in honor of his son Icarus . Others, like the Greek historian Timaeus of Tauromenion , traced the name back to a species of fish called Hykas (or Ikkaron ) that is believed to have been found in the sea near the city.

literature

Konrat Ziegler : Hykkara. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 1264.

Web links

Hykkara . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 846.
Carini archeology club with information on Hykkara (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Gianclaudio Ferreri: Monte d'Oro di Montelepre. La necropoli di Manico di Quarara. Nuovi dati. in: Carmine Ampolo (ed.): Sicilia occidentale. Studi, rassegne, ricerche. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 2012, p. 251 (with further references in note 2).

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[1] Gianclaudio Ferreri: Monte d'Oro di Montelepre. La necropoli di Manico di Quarara. Nuovi dati. in: Carmine Ampolo (ed.): Sicilia occidentale. Studi, rassegne, ricerche. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 2012, p. 251 (with further references in note 2).