- Athens,
which sought more
resources to
fight the
Peloponnesian War. The
Syracusans enlisted the aid of a
general from Sparta, Athens' foe in the war, to...
- for
several years,
fighting alongside Athens's
local allies against the
Syracusans and
their allies,
without achieving any
dramatic successes. In 425, the...
- The
Syracusan Bride Leading Wild
Animals in
Procession to the
Temple of Diana, also
known as A
Syracusan Bride Leading Wild
Beasts in
Procession to the...
- Look up
Syracuse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Syracuse most
commonly refers to: Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; in the
province of
Syracuse Syracuse, New...
- eminence. When
Alcibiades urged the
Spartans to send a
general to lead the
Syracusan resistance against the
Athenian expedition,
Gylippus was
appointed (414...
-
influence of an anti-Roman faction,
including two of his uncles,
amongst the
Syracusan elite.
Despite the ********ination of
Hieronymus and the
removal of the...
- brothers,
Antipholus of
Ephesus and his servant,
Dromio of Ephesus. When the
Syracusans encounter the
friends and
families of
their twins, a
series of wild mishaps...
- 20 years. Dion was the son of the
Syracusan statesman Hipparinus, who had
served with
Dionysius I in the
Syracusan army. Hipparinus'
other children were...
- and Empedocles, two
highly noted Sicilian-Gr**** philosophers,
while the
Syracusan-Gr****
Epicharmus is held to be the
inventor of comedy. One of the most...
- of Gylippus, that
emphasized that a fate so
cruel was
intended for the
Syracusans in case of
Athenian victory, the
suggestion was
adopted against the opinion...
