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The 1960 film Siege of Syracuse dramatizes the events of the siege. The events surrounding the siege are the basis for the manga Heureka by Hitoshi Iwaaki. The Siege of Syracuse is a campaign mission in the Rise of Rome expansion of Age of Empires, where players play as the Roman civilization to defeat the Carthaginians.
The siege of Syracuse in 397 BC was the first of four unsuccessful sieges Carthaginian forces would undertake against Syracuse from 397 to 278 BC. In retaliation for the siege of Motya by Dionysius of Syracuse , Himilco of the Magonid family of Carthage led a substantial force to Sicily.
Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) By the Roman Republic: Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage; By the Aghlabid dynasty: Siege of Syracuse (827–828) Siege of Syracuse (868) Siege of Syracuse (877–878) By the Byzantine Empire:
Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, between the city of Syracuse, and a Roman army under Marcellus sent to put down the city's uprising. The battle that Archimedes held off for two years and the battle that killed Archimedes; Battle of Syracuse (1710), a naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession between French and British fleets.
Map of ancient Syracuse. The descendants of the first colonists, called Gamoroi, held power until they were expelled by the lower class of the city assisted by Cyllyrians, identified as enslaved natives similar in status to the helots of Sparta. [18] [19] The former, however, returned to power in 485 BC, thanks to the help of Gelo, ruler of Gela.
By 22 May, the fleet had anchored 15 miles (24 km) north of Syracuse. [1] A group of native Sicilians, fluent in Greek and Arabic and disguised as fishermen or merchants, was sent by boat to under the command of a certain Philip reconnoiter the Syracusan fleet and harbour. [4] It returned on 24 May. [1] Prior to battle, the men took communion.
The siege of Syracuse from 877 to 878 led to the fall of the city of Syracuse, the Byzantine capital of Sicily, to the Aghlabids.The siege lasted from August 877 to 21 May 878 when the city, effectively left without assistance by the central Byzantine government, was taken by the Aghlabid forces.
Siege of Syracuse (Italian: L'assedio di Siracusa) is a 1960 historical drama film about the Roman Siege of Syracuse, which took place between 213 and 212 B.C., during the Second Punic War with Carthage.