Syracuse
Syracuse was a Greek city-state in south-eastern Sicily, founded by Corinthian settlers around 734 BC. Under the tyrants Gelon, Dionysius the Elder and Agathocles it was the strongest Greek power in the West and fought Carthage for Sicily for generations; the Athenian expedition was destroyed before its walls in 413 BC. Hiero II ruled as a king allied to Rome, but after his death the city sided with Carthage and was taken by the Romans in 212 BC, when Archimedes was killed.
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Events on its territory
- 415 BC–413 BC The Athenian Sicilian Expedition
- 213 BC–212 BC Archimedes against the Roman fleet