...Kamarina (present Santa Croceo). Dionysius I …
Years: 405BCE - 405BCE
...Kamarina (present Santa Croceo).
Dionysius I had become supreme commander of Syracuse by this time.
Although Greeks casualties were light, Dionysius evacuated the city, which the Carthaginians plundered the following day.
The Greek army had fallen back to Kamarina after a forced march along with Gelan refugees the day after the sack of Gela.
Dionysius had ordered the citizens of Camarina to leave their city instead of organizing a defense.
While retreating to Syracuse, part of the Greek army rebels and occupies Syracuse, which Dionysius later manages to recapture.
The Carthaginians sack Camarina and ...
Locations
People
Groups
- Ionians
- Dorians
- Elymians
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
- Gela (Dorian Greek) city-state of
- Etruria
- Camerina (Dorian Greek) city-state of
- Akragas (Dorian Greek) city-state of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Sicilian War, Second, or Second Carthaginian-Syracusan War
- Himilco's War
