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Abstract

During the First Servile War the leader Euno consolidated his power using signs and gestures, which came from the worship to the Syrian Goddess (Atargatis). The coronation of Euno made reference to the high priest of Hierapolis and the coinage with the name Antiochus appealed to the highest authority of the Seleucid monarchy. Pulling out the hair and eating of the sacred fish belong to the same religious tradition. The above mentioned facts are the basis for the hypothesis that, in Sicily, the Syrian Identity lived together with the native Greek identity. Euno unified both cults in the same city, a very important fact for the inhabitants of the city of Enna, a «new Hierapolis».

Keywords

• euno-antíoco
• primera guerra servil
• siria
• atargatis
• diosa siria
• enna