Himilco responds decisively, leading an expedition which …
Years: 397BCE - 397BCE
Himilco responds decisively, leading an expedition which not only reclaims Motya, but also captures Messina.
Motya as a city will never be rebuilt, however.
Himilco chooses to resettle the survivors at Lilybaeum, which will become the main base of Carthage in future and will never fall to siege or assault by Greeks or Romans while in Carthaginian possession.
Locations
People
Groups
- Sicani
- Sicels
- Ionians
- Dorians
- Elymians
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Magna Graecia
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
- Etruria
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Sicilian Wars, or Carthaginian-Syracusan Wars
- Sicilian War, Second, or Second Carthaginian-Syracusan War
- Motya, Siege of
- Dionysius War, First
