- Look up
Syracuse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Syracuse most
commonly refers to: Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; in the
province of
Syracuse Syracuse, New...
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campaigning season started, the
Syracusans moved against the
Athenians while they were
still encamped at Catania.
While the
Syracusans were
marching to Catania...
- 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...
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founded by the
Syracusans;
Acrae seventy years after Syracuse,
Casmenae nearly twenty after Acrae.
Camarina was
first founded by the
Syracusans,
close upon...
- defenders, and the
Syracusans unable to
force the
Romans to withdraw. The
Carthaginians realised the
potential hindrance a
continuing Syracusan defence could...
- the
Syracusans. They take
sanctuary in a
nearby priory,
where the
Abbess resolutely protects them. Suddenly, the
Abbess enters with the
Syracusan twins...
- Anti****ting this, the
Syracusans hastily built defences which the
Athenians attacked and destro****. This
forced the
Syracusans back into the city but...
- Sicily, an area
later known as
Magna Graecia. Ionians,
Doric colonists,
Syracusans, and the
Achaeans founded various cities. Gr****
colonisation placed the...
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Under Gylippus, the
Syracusans and
their allies decisively defeated the
Athenians on land; and
Gylippus encouraged the
Syracusans to
build a navy, which...
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between the
Syracusans and a
group of
Italic mercenaries known as the Mamertines. To
convince the
mercenaries to
leave the city, the
Syracusans offered them...
