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Following his triumph at Casilium, Marcellus is …
Years: 214BCE - 214BCE
Following his triumph at Casilium, Marcellus is sent to Sicily, upon which Hannibal has set his sights, and finds the island in disarray.
Hieronymus, the new ruler of the Rome-allied Kingdom of Syracuse, had recently come to the throne upon his grandfather's death and fallen under the influence of the Carthaginian agents Hippocrates and Epicydes.
He had then declared war against the Romans after the Carthaginian victory at the Battle of Cannae.
However, Hieronymus is soon deposed; the new Syracusan leaders attempt a reconciliation with Rome but cannot quell their suspicions and then align themselves with the Carthaginians.
In 214 BCE, the same year that he is sent to Sicily, …
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Years: 214BCE - 214BCE
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- Sicily, classical
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
- Roman Republic
- Greeks, Hellenistic
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