Syracuse - Texts
Syracuse: the ancient capital of Sicily.
Texts about Syracuse
- Thucydides on the colonization
- Herodotus and Diodorus on the battle of Himera
- Thucydides on the end of the Athenian expedition
- The Carthaginian-Syracusan peace of 405
- Diodorus on the capture of Motya
- Cicero on the sword of Damocles
- Plato on his first visit to Syracuse
- Plutarch on Timoleon's defeat of the Carthaginians
- Diodorus on the coup of Agathocles
- Polybius on Dionysius and Agathocles
- Livy on the Roman war against Pyrrhus
- Plutarch on Pyrrhus on Sicily
- Livy on the Roman conquest of Sicily
- Polybius on the Roman conquest of Sicily
- Plutarch on the death of Archimedes