Sicily
Never was a land more productive of tyrants than Sicily. |
| Sicily: large and rich island opposite the Italian mainland. In Antiquity, it was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, and contested by the Carthaginians, Romans, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines. |
Agathocles (Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Wien)
late-antique Roman villa
at Piazza Armerina
- Prehistory
- Colonization
- Fifth century
- The story of Dorieus
- The battle of Himera
- A Sicilian curse tablet
- Thucydides on the end of the Athenian expedition
- Early fourth century
- The Carthaginian-Syracusan peace of 405
- Diodorus on the capture of Motya
- Cicero on the sword of Damocles
- Plato on his first visit to Syracuse
- Late fourth century
- Plutarch on Timoleon's defeat of the Carthaginians
- Diodorus on the coup of Agathocles
- Polybius on Dionysius and Agathocles
- Third century
- Livy on the Roman war against Pyrrhus
- Plutarch on Pyrrhus on Sicily
- Livy on the Roman conquest of Sicily
- Polybius on the Roman conquest of Sicily
- Polybius on the corvus and the naval battle of Mylae
- Duillius' victory inscription
- Polybius on the naval battle of Ecnomus
- Plutarch on the death of Archimedes
- Roman province
- Late Antiquity
Aeolian islands
Alexander of Molossis
Archimedes of Syracuse
Carthage
A. Claudius Caudex
M. Claudius Marcellus
corvus
Damocles
Diodorus of Sicily
Dorieus of Sparta
Ducetius
Ecnomus
Eryx
Etna
Eunus
First Punic War
Hamilcar s/o Hanno
Hamilcar Barca
Hannibal s/o Gesco
Hannibal
Hanno s/o Hannibal
Hanno
Hermocrates
Himera
Hippocrates of Gela
Mamertines
Motya
Phalaris of Camarina
Plato
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Segesta
Sicilian Expedition
Syracuse