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Harmonia of Syracuse

Field	Value
name	Harmonia
nationality	Magna Graecia
spouse	Themistius
father	Gelo, son of Hiero II

Harmonia was a Sicilian princess of Magna Graecia, daughter of Gelo, the son of King Hiero II of Syracuse. She was the wife of Themistius.

According to Valerius Maximus, Harmonia did not commit suicide, but to prove the same courage as the girl who voluntarily took her place, she went in front of the murderers, saying she was the real princess, and was also killed.

References

Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women, pp 139 – 140; Harvard University Press, 2001;
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy's History of Rome Book 24 Chapters 24-29.
Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri, iii.2.ext.9

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