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Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, -467 B.C. or 466 B.C.

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Senator Lodge is right about the dates for Hieron I, but President Roosevelt said Hieron II ruled 50 years after Alexander the Great. Roosevelt is excited to see the Philistis coin. He encloses a copy of the letter he sent to Chairman Francis E. Warren along with Chief of Ordnance William Crozier’s findings concerning the presence of antimony in the chemical analysis of various bullets issued by the army at the time of the Brownsville Affair.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Lodge explains to President Roosevelt why he got the dates wrong for Hieron II. He had been thinking of Hieron I, but knew he was wrong when Roosevelt, who typically gets dates correct, thought Hiero II had lived a century after Alexander the Great. Lodge also discusses Philistis, the wife of Hieron II, and the coinage on which her head appears. He promises to show it to Roosevelt some time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-14

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924