Fields of Death: Retracing Ancient Battlefields by Richard Evans

Author:Richard Evans [Richard Evans]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chronology

410 Border disputes between Segesta and Selinous (Diod. 13.43.1) Segesta requests aid from Carthage (Diod. 13.44.4)

409 Hannibal attacks and destroys Selinous (Diod. 13.57.6) Himera destroyed by the Carthaginians (Diod. 13.62.4)

409/8 Hermocrates reoccupies Selinous (Diod. 13.63.3)

408 Hermocrates killed in Syracuse (Diod. 13.75.8)

407 Carthage founds a settlement at Therma, near the former Himera (Diod. 13.79.8)

406 Hannibal and Himilcon elected joint commanders by Carthaginians for an invasion of Sicily (Diod. 13.80.2)

406 The Carthaginians attack Akragas (Diod. 13.85.1)

Hannibal dies at Akragas during a plague (Diod. 13.86.3).

Akragas taken by Himilcon after an eight-month siege on 21 or 22 December Dionysius elected general by the Syracusans

405 Dionysius at Gela (Diod. 13.93.1)

397 Dionysius completes preparations for a new campaign against the Carthaginians Segesta besieged by the Greeks

Motyans breakdown their land link in anticipation of an attack by Dionysius

Siege of Motya (roughly ten days)

Carthaginian relief column at Lilybaeum

Carthaginian fleet defeat in the lagoon at Motya

Dionysius repairs the causeway and brings his siege engines onto the island

Motya falls to sustained attack and population massacred

Dionysius withdraws to Syracuse leaving a garrison on Motya

Motya retaken by the Carthaginians who transfer survivors to Lilybaeum

332 Alexander’s siege of Tyre (January-July/August)

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