Ancient Greek city, northern coast of Sicily .
It was founded с 649 BC by Syracusan exiles and Chalcidian inhabitants of Zancle (see Messina ). An unsuccessful Carthaginian invasion of Sicily ended in the death of Hamilcar at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC. It was finally destroyed in 409 BC by Hamilcar's grandson Hannibal . Its only visible relic is a Doric temple (480 BC); many of its lion-head spouts are exhibited in the Palermo Museum.