{"id":369,"date":"2009-01-22T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/himera.html"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","slug":"himera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/himera\/","title":{"rendered":"Himera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Site of the great victory of Gelon (and Theron) over the invading Carthaginians in 480, Himera was a flourishing city in its own right. Today it boasts a fine museum, and a very interesting acropolis site, including housing and a temenos with three temples, including this, the largest, a renovation of an earlier smaller temple (marked by the inner wall):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/HimeraAcrop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HimeraAcrop.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/HimeraAcrop-thumb-240x320.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the foot of the hill is the temple that Himera is famous for &#8212; some see it as a double of the temple of Athena in Syracuse, and with that temple a double memorial of the victory at Himera. You can test how similar it is when you visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Himera2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Himera2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Himera2-thumb-320x240.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Himera1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Himera1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Himera1-thumb-240x320.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems to have been cut down when the Carthaginians sacked Himera in 409, apparently to avenge their defeat in 480.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site of the great victory of Gelon (and Theron) over the invading Carthaginians in 480, Himera was a flourishing city in its own right. Today it boasts a fine museum, and a very interesting acropolis site, including housing and a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/himera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions\/856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}