Hieron
2. A citizen of Laodiceia in Phrygia, distinguished for his wealth. He adorned his native city with many splendid buildings, and left a property of 2000 talents at his death to be applied to public purposes. (Strab. xii. p.578.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.