On one these trips he wrote The Women of Aetna , in honor of the city founded by Hieron . He also restaged his Persians . Aeschylus traveled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC , having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse , a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians .