Catania. There they wintered and made preparations for their upcoming siegeofSyracuse. When the campaigning season started, the Syracusans moved against...
of the island, and, after a long siege, captured Syracuse in 878. The Byzantines retained control of some fortresses in the north-eastern corner of the...
defensive war machines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion. Archimedes died during the siegeofSyracuse, when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite...
advance quickly dried up and a protracted siegeofSyracuse began. While the allies under James besieged Syracuse, Frederick and the Sicilian army took up...
Syracuse in 397 BC, during one of the Carthaginian campaigns in Sicily. SiegeofSyracuse in 212 BC, between the city ofSyracuse, and a Roman army under Marcellus...
The city ofSyracuse, on the island of Sicily southwest of the Italian peninsula, has been besieged repeatedly since its founding as a Greek colony, including...
siegeofSyracuse. Claw of Archimedes, purportedly a sort of crane used to drop an attacking Roman ship partly down in to the water during the siege of...
Igor Jijikine in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Mark Killeen as Pontimus, a soldier from 212 BC during the SiegeofSyracuse. Nasser Memarzia as Archimedes...
Epidaurus is annexed by Korinth 619 Herbessus is annexed by Syracuse 616 Miletus is sieged by Lydia 615 Leontini is overthrown by Panaetius 612 Miletus...
participate in the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The Athenian siegeofSyracuse was nearly successful until the arrival of the Spartan general Gylippus, who...
spread of the idea to the besieged Syracusans. In any case, Syracuse survived the siege. Antander is mentioned afterwards as the instrument of his brother's...
Messina. Finally, he laid siege to Syracuse itself after decisively defeating the Greeks in the naval Battle of Catana. The siege met with great success...
Archimedes in the construction of those engines that, at a later date, played so important a part during the siegeofSyracuse by the Romans. According to...
command of Demosthenes to assist Nicias and his forces with the siegeofSyracuse. The Athenian army moves to capture Syracuse while the larger fleet of Athenian...
Carthaginian SiegeofSyracuse. Pyrrhus was proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus, a grandson of Agathocles ofSyracuse through...