- sickle, it was repo****ted by Gr****
colonists of
Magna Graecia and
renamed Messana. The city was
renamed Messina in the
Byzantine age. It was an important...
-
Dicaearchus of
Messana (/ˌdɪkeɪˈɑːrkəs ... məˈsɑːnə/;
Ancient Gr****: Δικαίαρχος Dikaiarkhos; c. 370/350 – c. post 323 BC), also
written Dikaiarchos (/ˈdɪkaɪɑːrk/)...
-
Punic War (264 to 241 BC). In 265 BCE, the
Mamertines who were
occupying Messana were
being threatened by
Hiero II of Syracuse. Consequently, they sent...
- The
Battle of
Messana in 264 BC was the
first military clash between the
Roman Republic and Carthage. It
marked the
start of the
First Punic War. In that...
- The war
began in 264 BC with the
Romans gaining a
foothold on
Sicily at
Messana (modern Messina). The
Romans then
pressed Syracuse, the only significant...
- over
possession of Sicily. In 265 BC,
Hiero II of
Syracuse had
attacked Messana (modern Messina) in an
attempt to
capture it from the Mamertines, mercenaries...
-
Messana O'Rorke is an
American architecture and
interior design firm that was
founded in 1996 in New York City. It has won a
number of
design awards for...
- Erymanthos). John
Bennet expressed the
opinion that by
Mezana is
meant Messana, a
Mycenaean Gr**** form of Messene. He
supposed that the
region around...
- by Agathocles, the
former tyrant of Syracuse,
capture the
stronghold of
Messana (Messina in north-eastern Sicily), from
which they har**** the Syracusans...
-
various acts of piracy. He
therefore took
control Mylae,
Tyndaris and then
Messana.
After this, all of
Sicily had to
submit to him.
First he
killed the praetor...
