Hybla Heraea orHybla Hera (Greek:Ὕβλα Ἡραία orὝβλα Ἥρα) was an ancient city ofSicily; its site is at the modernlocalità ofIbla, in thecomune ofRagusa. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities[1] named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish.[2]
Hybla Heraea is called byStephanus of Byzantium "Hybla the Less or Hybla the Least" (̔́̂Υβλα ἡ ἐλάττων), in distinction toHybla Major andHybla Minor, and surnamed Hera or Heraea (Ἥρα,Ἡραία). Of the cities of Sicily bearing the name "Hybla", it is much the least known from ancient sources. No allusion to it is found inPausanias, where he is distinguishingHybla Major fromHybla Minor, nor in any of the geographers: but we find in the Itineraries a town of Hybla, placed on the line of road fromSyracuse to Agrigentum (modernAgrigento, which is certainly distinct from both Hybla Major and Minor (and fromMegara Hyblaea andHybla Gereatis which may equate with them), and can therefore be no other than the third Hybla of Stephanus. It was situated, according to the Itineraries, 18 miles from Acrae (modernPalazzolo). (Itin. Ant. p. 89;Tab. Peut.). A passage in whichCicero speaks of a town called "Hera", in Sicily (ad Att. ii. 1. § 5), has been thought to refer to this town; but the reading is very doubtful.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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