Throughout antiquity, Sicily was both a hub of commerce and culture for the entire Mediterranean, and a hotspot of warfare in the ancient world - from the ill-fated Athenian expedition during the Peloponnesian War, to the Syracusans’ attempts to drive the Carthaginians off the island by laying siege to their colonies.    

Theme: Wars in Sicily

• Matthew Beazley, "Historical introduction: wars in Sicily"
• Konstantin Nossov, "Sicilian Greek fortifications: military architecture as a historical source"
• Paul McDonnell-Staff, "Timoleon of Corinth: saviour of Sicily"
• Annelies Koolen, "An underestimation of the enemy cavalry's potential? Athenian cavalry in Sicily"
• Nicholas Sekunda, "Cretan archers"
• Filippo Donvito, "Dionysius I's Siege of Motya, 397 BC"
• Sidney Dean, "Agathocles of Syracuse and the Third Greco-Punic War, 311–306 BC"

• Vincent van der Veen, "Roman ownership inscriptions in Museum Het Valkhof"
• Korneel van Lommel, "I would rather cut off my thumb: refusal of military service"
• Duncan Campbell, "Alexander's great cavalry battle: what really happed at the River Granicus?"