Thēron, tyrant of Acragas in Sicily 488–472 BC, who married his daughter Demaretē to Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse. In 483 he seized the city of Himera, and after the latter appealed for Carthaginian help, he and Gelon won a crushing victory there over the Carthaginians in 480. He made Acragas one of the most beautiful of Greek cities. Pindar wrote his second and third Olympian odes for him. He claimed descent from Thersander (see below).

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