Hannibal, whose Carthaginian forces return to Sicily, …
Years: 406BCE - 406BCE
Hannibal, whose Carthaginian forces return to Sicily, dies during the campaign in a plague that had broken out during the siege of Akragas in 406 BCE, but his brother Himilco forces the city's surrender after eight months, following which the Carthaginian troops plunder and destroy the city.
Locations
People
Groups
- Ionians
- Dorians
- Elymians
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
- Etruria
- Akragas (Dorian Greek) city-state of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Sicilian Wars, or Carthaginian-Syracusan Wars
- Decelean War, or Ionian War
- Sicilian War, Second, or Second Carthaginian-Syracusan War
- Hannibal's Sacking of Akragas
