The siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 213–212 BC. The Romans successfully stormed the Hellenistic city of Syracuse after a protracted...

of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage By the Arab Aghlabid dynasty: Siege of Syracuse (827–828) Siege of Syracuse (868)...

relationship with the defecting Italian cities. Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) J Griffin ed., The Oxford History of the Classical World (OUP 1991) p. 407 Livy 26:1...

Year 212 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Pulcher (or, less frequently...

air temperature. Legendary accounts of the Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) tell of Archimedes' heat ray, a set of burnished brass mirrors or burning glasses...

Year 213 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Gracchus (or, less frequently...

(213 BC) – Second Punic War Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) – the Roman siege Siege of Capua (211 BC) – Second Punic War Siege of Agrigentum (210 BC) –...

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...

Archimedes of Syracuse (/ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz/ AR-kim-EE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor...

The First Battle of Capua was fought in 212 BC between Hannibal and two Roman consular armies. The Roman force was led by two consuls, Quintus Fulvius...

burn attacking Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse (c. 213–212 BC). It does not appear in the surviving works of Archimedes and there is no contemporary...

The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually...

(311–309 BC) 287 BCE – Birth of mathematician Archimedes (approximate date). 278 BCE - Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) 214 BCE – Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) by...

history of Europe Roman shipyard of Stifone (Narni) Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) Notes The distance by sea from Alexandria (the main Egyptian grain port...

relieve the city in 213 BC and several further Sicilian cities deserted the Romans. In the spring of 212 BC the Romans stormed Syracuse in a surprise night...

Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 BC. Polybius describes usage of the machine: As well as these vessels he had eight...

spring 213 BC Syracuse was besieged. The siege was marked by the ingenuity of Archimedes in inventing war machines to counteract the traditional siege warfare...

siege to Carthage's main base at Akragas. A large Carthaginian army attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Akragas...

tyrant of Syracuse (b. 231 BC) 213 BC Aratus of Sicyon, Greek statesman, general and advocate of Greek unity, who, for many years, has been the leader of the...

War (Punic Wars) Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) – 213 BC – 212 BC – Second Punic War (Punic Wars) Battle of Tarentum (212 BC) – 212 BC – Second Punic War...

213-212 BC Epicydes, 213-212 BC Aristophylidas, c. 516-492 BC Lysias, before 67 BC Andromachus, fl. 344 BC Tyndarion, fl. 278 BC Symmachus, c. 520 BC...

the siege continued and Capua fell. In 212 BC, Marcellus conquered Syracuse and the Romans destroyed the Carthaginian army in Sicily in 211–210 BC. In...

defeat Hanno (son of Bomilcar) and, therefore, deny Hannibal his reinforcements. 213 BC The Siege of Syracuse begins. 212 BC March: Battle of Tarentum – Hannibal...

Scullard 2006, p. 569. Miles 2011, pp. 209, 212–213. Lazenby 1996, p. 175. Hoyos 2015, p. 211. Miles 2011, p. 213. Collins 1998, p. 13. Goldsworthy 2006,...

Year 340 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Torquatus and Mus (or, less frequently...

century BC: maximum splendor of Syracuse. 480 BC: Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, defeated the troops of Carthage at Himera, in the north of Sicily. 474 BC: The...

consular tribune in 403 BC, during the siege of Veii. He proposed a law allowing one of the tribunes of the plebs to halt the proceedings of the others. Appius...

prominently during the Second Punic War in 214 BC, when the Roman Republic attacked Syracuse with a fleet of 60 quinqueremes under Marcus Claudius Marcellus...

(305–304 BC) Siege of Sparta Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse...

of Macedon had the most powerful siege artillery of the Hellenistic world at the end of the 4th century BC. The siege of Salamis, Cyprus, in 306 BC necessitated...