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| | List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD |
 | | Battle of Beth Horon The Jewish rebel leader Judas Maccabaeus defeats the Seleucids. | | | Battle of Elasa Jewish leader Judas Maccabaeus is defeated and killed by the Selucid army of Bacchides | | | Battle of Cape Ecnomus A Carthaginian fleet under Hamilcar and Hanno is defeated in an attempt to stop a Roman invasion of Africa by Marcus Atilius Regulus. |
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http://www.enlightenweb.net/l/li/list_of_battles_1400_bc_600_ad.html
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| | Himera |
| | The Carthaginians chose this time to advance on the city of Himera, in an attempt to secure the northern coast of Sicily. | | | 407 Foundation of Termini Imerese, west of Himera, by survivors. | | | As the Greeks sent out more and more settlers, the Carthaginians also began to send out settlers to stem the westward migrations. |
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http://www.comune.termini-imerese.pa.it/english/Himera/himera.html
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| | Gelan with all his remaining troops would unleash an assault on the Carthaginian position while the balance of the troops in Himera would also burst out in a head long attack. | | | As can now by seen the Carthagians had good reason to believe that with these combination of alliances they could box in the Greeks and eliminating them at their leisure. | | | Gelon had the hill surrounded, but made no move to attempt any assault on the Carthaginian position. |
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http://www.ancientgreekbattles.net/Conflict/Himera.htm
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| | Battle of Salamis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Artemisia, the queen of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor and an ally of Xerxes, supposedly tried to convince him to wait for the Greeks to surrender, as a battle in the straits of Salamis would be deadly to the large Persian ships, but Xerxes and his chief advisor Mardonius pressed for an attack. | | | Throughout the night the Persian ships searched the gulf for the Greek retreat, while in fact the Greeks remained on their ships, asleep. | | | The battle was supposedly fought on the same day as the Battle of Himera. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis
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| | Silinus |
| | The Carthaginians immediately saw this dispute among the Greeks as an opportunity to attack the weakened Greek part of Sicily, and in 409 BC, they invaded the island, supposedly in aid of Segesta against Selinus.. | | | This theory may explain a didrachm struck at that time showing Hercules killing the Cretan bull with his club on the obverse. | | | After the battle of Himera Selinunte allied itself with Syracuse against Carthage, and in 409 B.C. the Carthaginians, summoned to the help of Segesta, the mortal enemy of Selinunte, sent an army of 100,000 under Hannibal, son of Gisco, which took Selinunte by assault before the allied troops of Agrigentum and Syracuse could arive. |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/AncGreece/silinus.htm
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| | HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results |
| | Krings implies that the consequences of this battle have been exaggerated in modern as well as ancient historiography... | | | was clothed in a deer outfit to Stesichorus: Stesichorus of Himera says that the goddess threw a deer-skin round Actaeon to ensure... | | | Hamilcar, did the same at the battle of Himera, sacrificing himself in a desperate attempt... |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=Himera&refid=ency_botnm
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| | Hamilcar |
| | Another Hamilcar, grandson to Hanno the Great, led a campaign against Syracuse between 311 BC and 307 BC, before being captured and killed. | | | A Hamilcar led the Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC. |
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http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/h/ha/hamilcar.html
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| | Sicily - Timeline |
| | Corinthians settled at Syracuse, Camarina and Akrai, Chalcidians at Himera, Mylai, Zancle, Catane, and Leontinoi, Megarians at Megara Hyblaea and Selinus, and Rhodians, Cretans and Cnidians at Gela, Akragas and Lipara. | | | They founded Himera (near Termini Imerese) around 650 BC but were defeated there by Greeks in 480 BC. | | | The colonists came from many parts of the Greek world. |
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http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/sicily-history.htm
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| | Viaggia.com - |
| | Under the tyrant Theron II, it was an ally of Syracuse in the victorious battle against the Carthaginians at Himera in 480 BC. | | | The rivalry between Agrigento and the Carthaginians did not end with the defeat of the latter in the battle at Himera, however, several battles followed, until Agrigento was completely destroyed. | | | It was rebuilt by Timoleon, who was to see his efforts enjoyed by the Romans as they occupied the city in the 3rd century BC, renaming it Agrigentum. |
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http://viaggia.com/destinations/agrigento.html
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| | Whither Hannibal |
| | The survivors of the battle fled to either Termini or Caccamo. | | | This time, the Carthaginians defeated the Greeks and destroyed Himera. | | | My father would not have immigrated to the United States, and I would not be reading this paper tonight. |
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| | Battles |
| | The Battle of Magnesia 190 BC Third Macedonian War 171 BC - 168 BC, The Battle of Pydna 168 BC Fourth Macedonian War 150 BC - 148 BC Duncan B. Campbell, Brian Delf (Illustrator), | | | The Battle of Haliartus 395 BC The Battle of Coronea 394 BC The Battle of Cnidus 394 BC The Battle of Naxos 376 BC The Battle of Leuctra 371 BC in central Greece | | | The Battle of Cunaxa 401 BC, A Persian-Persian battle with Greek mercenaries among which Xenophon, the author of The Anabasis. |
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http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/Battles/Battles.html
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| | Livius Picture Archive: the battle of Himera (480 BCE) |
| | It seems that the Carthaginians expected reinforcements from their Greek allies, and understood too late that the troops they had allowed to enter in their camp, were in fact their enemies. | | | Temple of Victory at Himera, on the site of the Carthaginian camp. | | | Livius Picture Archive: the battle of Himera (480 BCE) |
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http://www.livius.org/a/battlefields/himera/himera.html
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| | Best of Sicily - Termini Imerese, Himera, Caccamo |
| | Best of Sicily - Termini Imerese, Himera, Caccamo | | | The history of ancient Termini Imerese is really the history of Himera. | | | It is believed that the survivors of the battle fled to either Termini or Caccamo (famous for its Norman castle), and founded the two towns or developed existing settlements. |
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http://www.bestofsicily.com/termini.htm
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| | Temples At Agrigento |
| | Never finished, it collapsed in an earthquake and was later used as a quarry. | | | This temple was to have been one of the largest in the Greek world. | | | It was built to celebrate the Greek victory over Carthage at the battle of Himera (480 BC). |
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http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/doric/agr16.html
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| | Demareteion Dekadrachms - Part Two |
| | This exergual device continued for twenty-five years, inviting speculation as to whether the victory was really worthy of such commemoration. | | | Later historians then scrambled to "explain" the issuance of a large coin in the name of Demarete. | | | Given that it was during these five years that they were receiving a 2000 talent indemnity from Carthage, and thus would have been able to strike a considerable number of coins, the hypothesis is untenable. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.1.04 |
| | Prisoners of war are scarcely mentioned, which could either mean that they were an obvious phenomenon or that they were executed. | | | After Mykale, there were still several years of struggle until all Persian forces were out of the Northern Aegean; a decisive victory, celebrated in at least one red-figured vase, was the battle at the Eurymedon, although the background and even the exact date are unclear (about 466 BC). | | | After that, the sources lose interest in Persia until the late 5th century, when Persian gold begins to play an important role in Greek politics (9-14). |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/98.1.04.html
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| | TVM Entry Floor: Classic Period Greek Art |
| | With Ionian support, the wars continue under the leadership of Athens, which founds the Delian League. | | | Naval battle of Cumae between Greeks and Etruscans | | | The second war (480 BC) is declared by Xerxes I; after several victories and the sack of Athens, the Persians are defeated in the naval battle of Salamis. |
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http://www.tigtail.org/TIG/M_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Greek/Greek-art/greek-4.classic.html
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| | Sicily |
| | It would not be overzealous to say that the history of Hellenistic Sicily is largely the history of Syracuse. | | | Though it was an important city from the time of its foundation, Syracuse flourished unhindered after Hieron's victory (with the help of the Agrigentans) over the Carthaginians at Himera, near present-day Termini Imerese, in 480 BC, and soon became the most important Greek city in Sicily, both economically and politically. | | | These were the only three cities of the ancient Mediterranean world to challenge the power and prosperity of Syracuse during its Golden Age. |
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http://www.emich.edu/abroad/staff/Benita/Sicily.html
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| | Persian Wars Timeline |
| | Many Greek states submit to Persia, many out of necessity, but some more willingly. | | | Carthage, under command of Hamilcar, invades Sicily, and is spectacularly defeated at the battle of Himera. | | | At battle of Plataea in 479, the league has 31 members. |
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http://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/herodotustimeline.html
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| | Himera |
| | But, in 480, they were defeated in the battle of Himera by Theron, who had received help from Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse. | | | With the help of Anaxilaos, tyrant of Reggio, his son-in-law, he assembled a huge army under the leadership of Amilcar, king of Carthage (Herodotus, VII, 165). | | | The tradition has it that the battle took place on the very same day as the battle of Salamis (Herodotus, VII, 166-167), as if to suggest that the Greek world was saved from "barbarians" from the east (the Persians) and west (the Carthaginians) on that day. |
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| | Archaic Period-Politics |
| | Gelon's death did not lead to the decline of his state. | | | This point of view is confirmed by a piece of information in Herodotus: the battle of Himera (he tells us) happened on the same day as the sea battle of Salamis. | | | In 483 B.C., eastern Sicily was under the control of Gelon and Theron tyrant of Acragas, while Himera and Selinus had allied themselves with Carthage and in Messene power was exercised by Anaxilas tyrant of Rhegium. |
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http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/04/en/politics/330exw_eisboli.html
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| | Carthage in Sicily |
| | At the battle of Himera off the Sicilian coast, their fleet suffered disastrous defeat by Gelon of Syracuse and his allies. | | | After seizing Himera in a furious assault and slaughtering its inhabitants, the victorious Carthaginian leader returned to Carthage, leaving his forces in firm control of the entire area to the north and west of the captured cities. | | | Led by Syracuse, other Greek cities of the island hurridly sent support to Himera, but the Sicel and Siculi settlements sided with the invaders. |
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| | 480 BC |
| | \n* Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas as king of Sparta.\n* August Battle of Artemisium Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet.\n* September 23 Battle of Salamis.\n* Persian invasion of Corfu.\n* Battle of Himera The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse. | | | King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece.\n* Cimon and his mates burn horse-bridles as offering to Athena and join marines\n* August 11 Battle of Thermopylae. |
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http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/4/48/480_bc.html
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| | Perseus Lookup Tool |
| | Further, Hamilcar of Carthage, called in by the tyrants of Himera and Rhegion, counted upon the aid of Selinus against Theron of Akragas and Gelon of Syracuse in the Battle of Himera (480 BC). | | | A tyrant of Gela, who reigned B.C. 504-498 and was succeeded by his brother Hippocrates, whom Gelon deposed in B.C. More | | | Hippokrates was succeeded by Gelon, who moved to Syracuse in 483 B.C. and defeated the Carthaginian army in the battle of Himera in 480 B.C. Under the rule of Gelon's successors, the Deinomenids, Gela's political importance declined although it remained an artistic and cultural center. |
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| | Victory at Himera |
| | At Himera, on the north coast of Sicily, the Carthaginians met devastating defeat at the hands of Syracuse, aided by the forces of Agrigento. | | | At the same time his Carthaginian allies began their invasion of Sicily. | | | Thereafter, with the external threat repulsed, Gelon, Tyrant of Syracuse, consolidated his power throughout most of Greek Sicily. |
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| | Sicily : Dateline |
| | 409 B.C. Carthage attacks and destroys Selinunte and Himera. | | | 480 B.C. Syracusans overrun the Carthaginian beachhead at the Battle of Himera. |
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| | Time line |
| | Battle of Himera: The Carthaginians attack Greek colonies on Sicily | | | Battle of Cumae: Etruscan attack on the colonies of Magna Graecia | | | Battle of Thermopylae: Xerxes attacks Greece - Part of the Persian War |
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| | Welcome to Sicily Bella - About the province of Trapani |
| | Cicero, who visited in 75 BC, described it as a "splendid city." The Arabs changed its name in Mars-Ali. | | | Favignana: The Greek called the island Aegusa, but it was named Famignana after the wind Favonio during the Middle Ages. | | | The Romans conquered it in 241 BC following the great sea battle that also led to the conquest of Drepanum. |
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http://www.sicilybella.com/about_trapani.html
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| | Carthage |
| | After the Carthaginians were beaten by Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse, at the battle of Himera in 480 (the same day as the battle of Salamis according to tradition, see Herodotus, VII, 166-167), they left most of Sicily. | | | But, toward the end of the Vth century B. C., a new war broke out between Carthage and the Sicilians. |
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http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/loc/carthage.htm
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| | Detail Page |
| | But a Greek army under Gelon destroyed Hamilcar and his force at the Battle of Himera. | | | An able military commander, he is remembered for his defeat of the Carthaginians at the Battle of Himera (480 | | | After making peace with Carthage and imposing on them a huge indemnity of 1, 000 Talents, Gelon began a program of propagandistic cultural display. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0223
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| | The World of Greek Drama |
| | Hanibal invades Sicily and defeats the Sicilian Greeks at the second battle of Himera. | | | The Greeks defeat the Persians at the battle of Marathon. | | | The Athenians spreat the war into Boeotia, but are defeated at the battle of Delium. |
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| | Main regions of Italy including Tuscany, Veneto, Campania, Piedmont, Lombardi and Sicily |
| | In 480 BC Palermo, together with Carthage, fought in the epic Battle of Himera, which saw the Phoenicians and the Greeks of Sicily pitched one against the other. | | | In the First Punic War, Palermo was one of the most important strategic points in the Carthaginian defenses, and it took an active part against the Romans, who however finally defeated the city in 251 BC. |
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| | Battle of Himera |
| | Two notable battles were fought in the ancient world at Himera in Sicily: |
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| | PHOENICIA - LoveToKnow Article on PHOENICIA |
| | 570); it was regarded as a patriotic act when Hamilcar threw himself upon the pyre after the disastrous battle of Himera (Herod. | | | The god who demanded these victims, and especially the burning of children, seems to have been Milk, the Molech or Moloch of the Old Testament. | | | In the last crisis of the dying power of Assyria the Egyptians for a short time laid hands on Phoenicia; but after their defeat The Neo- at the battle of Carchemish (6o~), the Chaldaeans Babylonian became the masters of western Asia. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Sicily |
| | In a battle at Himera in 480 BC the Carthaginian army was completely routed by Gelon, and the Carthaginian leader, Hamilcar, was slain. | | | The Carthaginians first arrived on the island in 536 bc, but because of the growing wealth and power of the Greek cities, they were long confined to the northwest; the principal Carthaginian colonies were Panormus, Motya, and Solois. | | | The Gelonian dynasty at Syracuse fell in 466 bc, and for 50 years Sicily had peace. |
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| | Preperation for battle |
| | While the horsehair-crested helmets and the scarlet cloaks restored what they could of the old wall, the first strikes of battle were being waged at sea. | | | Many years of preperation had allowed Xerxes to strike at Greece in a double horned attack. | | | In the summer of 480 BC, while Xerxes moved into Greece, the event that would lead to the battle of Himera started to take place. |
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| | The Carthaginians returned at the end of the fifth century, destroying Himera and other Sicilian cities. | | | Carthage, a Phoenician settlement on the coast of northern Africa, began to compete with the Greeks for control of Sicily in the fifth century B.C. Its interference there eventually led to the Battle of Himera in 480 B.C., in which combined Greek forces soundly defeated the Carthaginians. | | | The Syracusans resisted them throughout the fourth century, confining them to the western part of the island, where they minted coins to pay their troops. |
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| | Battle of Himera -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Two notable battles were fought in the ancient world at (Click link for more info and facts about Himera) Himera in (The Italian region on the island of Sicily) Sicily: | | | Battle of Himera -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article | | | (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of Himera (480 BC)) Battle of Himera (480 BC) |
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| | The battle of Himera |
| | The complex first section can be summarized as follows: Gelon and his ally Theron of Acragas had been at war with Terillus of Himera and Anaxilaus of Rhegium; the latter had invited the Carthaginians. | | | This translation of Herodotus Histories 7.165-167 was made by G. Macaulay. | | | The following text is the oldest description of this conflict. |
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| | Ancient Sparta and Athens |
| | The part played by Athens under the guidance of Themistocles in the repulse of Persia gave her a new position among the Greek states and an indisputable naval leadership. | | | The Sicilian Greeks, led by Gelo of Syracuse, successfully resisted and overthrew the aggression of Carthage, the issue being decided at the battle of Himera. |
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| | General History for Colleges and High Schools, A |
| | [Footnote: On the very day of the battle of Salamis, Gelon of Syracuse gained a great victory over the Carthaginians at the battle of Himera, in the north of Sicily. | | | The battles of Salamis, Platæa, and Mycale were the successive blows that shattered into fragments the most splend |
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| | Special Places in Nature |
| | It was ruled 570–554 BC by the notorious tyrant Phalaris, who was reputed to have had men roasted alive in a brazen bull, and it reached its peak in 480 when the tyrant Theron, in alliance with Syracuse, won the decisive Battle of Himera over the Carthaginians. | | | This site has suffered generations of abuse, more than half the original mound is gone, the stone having been taken for road-making and building materials. | | | The Annals of Tighernach tell of Dowth being plundered and burnt in 1059, with a record in the Annals of the Four Masters of three great early battles at Dowth, and a later burning in 1170. |
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