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demobbed his army. Hermocrates had in the meantime been dismissed from the Aegean fleet and returned with five ships and a small army of refugees and mercenaries, with which he settled in what remained of Selinunte and attacked Carthage's vassal cities. Syracuse fell into chaos, Diocles was exiled and Hermocrates was killed trying to resettle.
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fell, at which point Dionysius was able to sign a peace treaty delimiting Syracuse's and Carthage's spheres of influence on the island, leaving the Punic, Sicanian and Elymian cities in the latter. It also imposed a tribute to Carthage on Selinunte, Akragas, Himera, Gela and Camarina and forbade them
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in a 384 BC campaign. As early as 404 BC he renounced Syracuse's treaty with Carthage and began to take over several Siculan colonies, pushing as far as Enna. He then attacked and destroyed Naxos and conquered Catania, deporting its inhabitants. He strengthened his army, adopting new weapons such as
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was destroyed and its inhabitants slaughtered. In 396 BC the Carthaginians returned to Sicily in force, taking almost the whole island, destroying Messina and menacing Syracuse itself before a plague forced them to make peace with Dionysius, pay him a large indemnity and return to Carthage. Messina
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had broken out in mainland Greece in 431 BC, heavily involving the colonies on Sicily. In 427 BC groups of Siculi became involved again, this time in the war between Leontini and Syracuse. This also drew in Catania, Naxos and Camarina on Leontini's side and Himera and Gela on Syracuse's side. After
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Gelon's rise to power reinforced the Greek-speaking presence on Sicily. The numbers of Siculi and Sicani were rising and so he fought a series of battles aimed at combating this perceived threat, turning Syracuse into a powerful city with an army and navy, repopulating it by moving people from Gela
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trading posts in the west of the island. The growing Greek colonies eventually came into conflict with the Phoenicians, which led to a series of wars between them. As Greece was absorbed by Rome in a series of conquests and alliances, the Romans carried on the Greco-Punic wars as the Roman-Punic
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As the Greeks sought to colonize the island, and the Phoenicians merely desired sporadic outposts for their trading network with little intent on direct control, conflict between the Greeks and the Siculi took on the nature of a colonizer/colonized relationship, while the Phoenicians frequently
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landed with another army, obliterating Selinunte and massacring its inhabitants. He then marched on Himera, where he met the Syracusan army under Diocles. After heavy losses the Syracusans retreated. The Imeresi also fled, but half of them were killed. Hannibal quickly returned to Carthage and
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The 6th century BC proved a period of prosperity and population growth in Sicily, but also saw conflict both within the colonies and between them and the local populations. Some individuals profited from this and took power through despotic and brutal means and expansionist policies. In 570 BC
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to request its assistance. He then marched on Syracuse, which quickly opened its gates and welcomed him, leading to a decade of struggles which drew in Leontini and the other cities and ended with Syracusan control of Sicily weakened. Syracuse was also convulsed by a series of murders, whilst
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Sicily began to prosper again, though Agathocles' first decade was marked by conflicts with the oligarchies of Akragas, Gela and Messina, backed by Carthage which in 311 BC invaded Sicily again. Besieged in Syracuse, in mid-August 310 BC Agathocles entrusted the city's defence to his brother
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played the role of a third party in playing entities off against each other in however a way best fit their commercial interests. The Phoenicians would consequently align with weaker Greek actors against more dominant Greek actors, or align with the Siculi against Greek settlements.
596:, who wished to focus on the Athenian troops who had landed on the island and who left as a result of treaty. In 422 BC, a civil war in Leontini provided a fresh pretext for intervention in Syracuse. The city was razed to the ground and the victorious oligarchs moved to Syracuse. 915:
It was at this point that Agathocles adopted the Hellenistic-style title of king of Sicily, though this was mainly for a foreign audience, with his style of rule on Sicily remaining unchanged. He turned his ambitions east towards Italy and the outlying Greek islands, conquering
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was still unable to defeat the coalition which had gathered at Syracuse in the meantime. At the end of 413 BC the Athenians were routed, with 7,000 of their men captured and sent to the stone quarries, where most of them died. The rest were sold into slavery and Demosthenes and
939:. To convince the mercenaries to leave the city, the Syracusans offered them the port of Messina, which the mercenaries seized, massacring the men and enslaving the women and children. The mercenaries then began raids on the area and also attacked Gela and Camarina. In 282 BC, 653:
to build city walls, but Leontini, Messina and the Siculi were freed and Dionysius was left in control of Syracuse. Thus ended the brief period of democracy. The period from 405 BC right up to the conquest by Rome would be marked by the rulers of Syracuse.
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and Inessa (now Etna). Catania therefore re-assumed its former name and was repopulated again, this time with those exiled under Hiero and with Syracusan and Siculi colonists. Messina was freed from the tyranny of Anaxilas' sons around the same time.
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argues that their fall was mainly caused by internal struggles between powerful families. Trasideus was the first to fall, in his case to a coalition of Syracusan insurgents, Siculan troops and soldiers from Akragas, Gela, Selinunte and Himera.
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Timoleon's retirement from politics soon led to another period of instability, mainly marked by internal class conflict between the oligarchs and the people of Syracuse. Wars broke out between the cities, paving the way for the long reign of
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suffered a humiliating defeat after which he was captured, tortured to death and beheaded, with his head sent to Agathocles in Africa. However, Agathocles did not have enough troops to launch an attack on Carthage and so allied himself with
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without it having to cross Etruscan territory. He also agreed to populate the new colonies with his pro-democratic political opponents and let them set up democratic governments there. This marked the foundation of
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In spring 406 BC the Carthaginians returned with a large force, razing Akragas and looting its artworks. A young man named Dionysius was appointed supreme commander of Syracuse, which held out for seven months.
1051:"Θρινακίη" in Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940. 908:'s old officer Ofella, governor of Cyrenaica, who had 10,000 elephants and cavalry at his disposal. Agathocles then murdered Ofella for unknown reasons and took command of the extra forces himself, taking 947:, which he rebuilt in pure Greek style with a city wall, temples and agora. Two years later Syracuse attacked and defeated Akragas, raiding the territory but also triggering a new Carthaginian invasion. 971:. His large army and 200 ships succeeded in neutralising both the Carthaginian and Mamertine threats, but he was unable to take the Carthaginian stronghold at Lilybaeum and soon had to return to Italy. 932:. During his long reign Sicily prospered, as is confirmed by the archaeological record. He was murdered by a family rival in 289 BC, aged 72, but his death quickly led to anarchy and power struggles. 872:
from 317 BC. He played a major part in these wars. The long period of autonomy and self-government for the cities in mainland Greece and Sicily thus ended and the Hellenistic monarchies were born.
999:. Concluding the Roman Republic would soon eclipse Carthage, he made a treaty with the Republic in 263 BC and remained faithful to it until his death, sparing his subjects the consequences of the 235: 887:
of this period he promised the cancellation of debts and the division and distribution of land, promises which it seems from the limited sources that he kept. According to
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in 491 BC or 490 BC. After six years, Gelon conquered Syracuse without resistance (485 BC or 484 BC) and made it his capital, becoming its tyrant and leaving his brother
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and governed differently from previous sovereigns. From then on he pursued a non-expansionist policy, eschewing military adventures in favour of a focus on trade in the
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of Akragas were "violent murderers". Their cruelty seems to have provoked revolts which ended the first period of tyranny among the Greek colonies on Sicily, though
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with a fleet of 250 ships and 25,000 men to assist them, but this Sicilian expedition ended in disaster. Later assistance in 414 BC and 413 BC under
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of Himera and Anaxilas sought help from Carthage, but Gelon and Teron gathered all the Siceliot forces on Sicily for a decisive engagement at
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Only Deinomenes remained in power in Aitna until a Siculan-Syracusan coalition forced its population to flee to the surrounding hills of
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Political disorder led to a precarious balance. Exiled to Leontini, Iceta sought assistance from Corinth, which sent a small army under
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were tried. Syracuse celebrated victory, but this could not guarantee internal peace. Its government was led by one of its generals,
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Antandros and escaped with 14,000 men and 60 ships to invade North Africa. He burned his ships after arriving and based himself in
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and Syracuse were all ports on one of the most important trade routes of the era and became points from which to control them.
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In 410 BC Selinunte attacked Segesta. A small force of Carthaginian mercenaries came to help Segesta and the following year
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The earliest Greek colonies in Sicily are all on its east coast, showing the importance of the trade route through the
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was repopulated and Dionysius fought with Carthage again, with varying degrees of success, until his death in 367 BC.
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The first Greek colonies were founded in eastern Sicily in the 8th century BC when the Chalcidian Greeks founded
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In 346 BC Dionysius the Younger returned to Syracuse, though sources on the period are fragmentary. Meanwhile
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In the end, ethnic Greek settlement was substantive on Sicily, while Carthaginian settlement was fleeting.
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One of those power struggles was between the Syracusans and a group of Italic mercenaries known as the
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tyrant of Akragas took advantage of this and finally destroyed Gela and deported its population to
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Around 387 BC Dionysius began to establish colonies on the Adriatic coast to obtain wheat from the
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Over the following centuries many conflicts between the city-states occurred until around 276 BC
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Città e monumenti dei greci d'occidente: dalla colonizzazione alla crisi di fine V secolo a.C.
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took power in Syracuse, made a treaty with the Carthaginians and launched a new attack on the
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three years, in 424 BC a peace treaty was signed under the patronage of the Syracusan
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from which the Greek colonists came were usually also the source of the new cities' (
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and other cities in the interior during two days of popular revolts. According to
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catapults and building a powerful fleet by deforesting large areas of Etna.
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Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Archeologia della colonizzazione greca d'Occidente
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I Greci in Occidente. Catalogo della Mostra (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia 1996)
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took power by stages and reigned over the whole of Sicily as far as
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in 689 BC, with which the first Greek colonisation of Sicily ended.
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and into Etruscan territory. He attacked and destroyed the port of
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around the mid 8th century BC. The Greeks of Sicily were known as
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Agathocles seized power in Sicily with the aid of veterans from
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Claire L. Lyons, Michael Bennett, Clemente Marconi (ed.s),
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Breve storia della Sicilia dalle origini ai giorni nostri
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took control of most of Greek-speaking Sicily other than
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between 1533 and 1534 when fleeing the expansion of the
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Reconstruction of the acropolis and temples at Selinunte
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managed to conquer the whole island except Carthaginian
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writes that the first Greek colonies were founded by
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The conflict also drew in western Sicily; in 416 BC
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Reconstruction of the Temple of Victory, erected at
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Map of the Greek colonies and sub-colonies in Sicily
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They were officially recognised in 2012. 508:and repopulating it with settlers from the 488:in 480 BC, where they defeated and killed 603:(with Syracusan support) declared war on 405:Sicily under the Deinomenids (485-465 BC) 117:Learn how and when to remove this message 519: 400: 1341:Lorenzo Braccesi and Giovanni Millino, 1252:, Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2006, 1035: 556:In 452 BC a Hellenised Siculan called 1306:, Roma, Newton & Compton, 2002 , 1042:Braccesi e Millino, op. cit., p. 184. 692:surrendered and after a year's siege 7: 1183:, Bari-Roma, Laterza Editore, 2011, 536:(Hiero's successor in Syracuse) and 426:in 505 BC, succeeded by his brother 314:Temple of the Dioscuri at Agrigento. 55:adding citations to reliable sources 785:was also caught up in this period. 756:Dionysius was succeeded by his son 290:Interior of Temple E (known as the 967:in 278 BC, welcomed by the tyrant 25: 1019:minority, which arrived from the 572:near the former sanctuary of the 450:and adding some of the conquered 1328:, ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1999, 1137:, Firenze, Lalli Editore, 1991, 462:and Messina (then controlled by 214:The Greek cities of Sicily were 31: 1179:Gioacchino Francesco La Torre, 1155:, Milano, Rcs MediaGroup, 1996. 564:and destroying Inessa-Etna and 42:needs additional citations for 516:Democratic period (466-405 BC) 231:Relations with other islanders 1: 773:became tyrant of Catania and 1326:Storia della Sicilia, vol. 1 1216:, Getty Publications, 2013, 1201:, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010, 1117:Storia della Sicilia antica 1434: 777:of Leontini. According to 394: 306:The acropolis at Selinunte 279: 171: 138: 1345:, Carocci editore, 2000, 1270:, Milano, Rizzoli, 2005, 1101:Il Mondo dell'Archeologia 858:Hellenistic era (323 BC-) 66:"History of Greek Sicily" 1363:Finley, Moses I (1979). 524:Sicilian cultures 431 BC 255:. 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