Achaeus of Syracuse (; lived 4th century BC ) was an ancient Greek tragedian native of Syracuse.

213 BC ), sister to Laodice III, another daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, wife of Seleucid general Achaeus

* Achaeus of Eretria ( born 484 BC ), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved

Clement of Alexandria mentions Phthia, a daughter of Phoroneus, who became the mother of Achaeus by Zeus.

* Achaeus ( general ) ( died 213 BC ), grandson to the above and a relative of Antiochus III the Great who was appointed governor of all the king's provinces beyond Taurus Mountains

The citadel managed to hold out until 213 BC under Achaeus ' widow Laodice who surrendered later.

Her father Achaeus was a wealthy nobleman who owned estates in Anatolia.

His mother Pandora II ( named after her grandmother Pandora ) was the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and sister of Hellen who together with his three sons Dorus, Xuthus ( with his sons Ion and Achaeus ) and Aeolos, comprised the set of ancient tribes that formed the Greek / Hellenic nation.

In 215 BC, in the war of Antiochus against Achaeus, we find Lagoras in the service of the former ; and it was through his discovery of an unguarded part of the wall of Sardis, that Antiochus was enabled to take the city, Lagoras being himself one of the select party who forced their way into the town over the portion of the wall in question.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

The Corinthians, the Spartans, and others in the Peloponnesian League sent more reinforcements to Syracuse, in the hopes of driving off the Athenians ; but instead of withdrawing, the Athenians sent another hundred ships and another 5, 000 troops to Sicily.

The war ended with another treaty of peace which did not prevent the Carthaginians interfering in the politics of Syracuse after the death of Agathocles ( 289 BC ).

After another decisive victory in the summer of 1040, Maniaces halted his march to lay siege to Syracuse.

Tully is geologically noted for the terminal moraine deposited there by the glacier, filling the deep Tully Valley, which might have been another Finger Lake, had the moraine been left closer to Syracuse, impounding water.

East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX ( now Verizon ), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a legislative meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts.

With the Book restored to Syracuse, Sinbad and his crew leave Syracuse on another voyage, leaving Marina behind.

In addition to the Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad, another never-built company, the Mohawk Valley Railroad, was chartered January 21, 1851, and reorganized December 28, 1852, to build a railroad on the south side of the Mohawk River from Schenectady to Utica, next to the Erie Canal and opposite the Utica and Schenectady.

Adding to the confusion, there is another fair called The Sterling Renaissance Festival which is located north of Syracuse, NY.

He then went out West to the Vancouver Canucks for another brief stay and spent time that year with the AHL's Syracuse Crunch and IHL's Orlando Solar Bears before moving on to play with the IHL's Kansas City Blades in 2000-01.

He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.

* Sosiphanes of Syracuse, tragic poet

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

* 474 Pindar, Greek poet moves to Thebes from court at Syracuse

* The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse.

* The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse.

476-68 BCE ) expands on the example of Ixion, applicable to Hiero I of Syracuse, the tyrant of whom the poet sings ; and Aeschylus, Euripides and Timasitheos each wrote a tragedy of Ixion: none have survived.

In 16, the poet praises Hiero II of Syracuse, in 17 Ptolemy Philadelphus, and in 22 the Dioscuri.

A picture of the prosperity of Syracuse during his rule is given in the sixteenth idyll of Theocritus, his favourite poet.

Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.

Archestratus ( Archestratos ) was an Ancient Greek poet of Gela or Syracuse, in Sicily, who wrote some time in the mid 4th century BCE.

The son of a potter who had moved to Syracuse in about 343 BC, he learned his father's trade, but afterwards entered the army.

* In 2010, Butler reached their first Final Four as a # 5 seed, beating # 12 seeded UTEP in the first round behind a flurry of 3-pointers, edging out a very good # 13 seed Murray State ( who upset # 4 seed Vanderbilt in the first round ), and then in the Sweet 16, Butler upset # 1 seed Syracuse, and in a thrilling Elite Eight game Butler upset # 2 seed Kansas State.

The principle of the parabolic reflector may have been discovered in the 3rd century BC by the geometer Archimedes, who, according to a legend of debatable veracity, constructed parabolic mirrors to defend Syracuse against the Roman fleet, by concentrating the sun's rays to set fire to the decks of the Roman ships.

Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist ( colonizer ) Archias, who called it Sirako, referring to a nearby salt marsh.

The enlarged power of Syracuse made unavoidable the clash against the Carthaginians, who ruled western Sicily.

In 1085 the Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Arab strongholds, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count.

Many of the scenarios in the book would be enacted as performance pieces throughout Ono's career and have formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including one highly publicized show at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, that was nearly closed when besieged by excited Beatle fans who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.

** Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman general who has captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War and has become known as " the sword of Rome " ( b. 268 BC )

( 11 ) Citizenship was granted to them both and it was ordered that five hundred iugera of land be granted to each of them too: for Sosis in the Land of Syracuse which had belonged either to the king or enemies of the Roman People, plus such a house in Syracuse that he desired belonging to anyone who had been punished according to the laws of war, ( 12 ): for Moericus and the Spaniards who had gone over with him, a city and land in Sicily belonging to those who had defected from the Roman People.

" The Greeks, who were the most dominant culture on the island of Sicily due to the powerful city state of Syracuse to the east, instead called the settlement Panormus.

** Archimedes of Syracuse, Greek mathematician and scientist, who has calculated formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas and other plane and solid figures.

Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning " elbow "; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow.

* Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city, and makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

* Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman general who has captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War and has become known as " the sword of Rome " ( b. 268 BC )

* Archimedes of Syracuse, Greek mathematician and scientist, who has calculated formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas and other plane and solid figures.

* The Roman general, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who is in Sicily at the time of the revolt of Syracuse, leads an army which storms Leontini and besieges Syracuse.

* After his surrender to the Corinthian general Timoleon, who takes over as ruler of Syracuse, the former tyrant, Dionysius II, is allowed to retire to Corinth to live in exile, although he dies within the year.

In Bacchylides ' ode, composed for Hiero of Syracuse, who won the chariot race at Olympia in 468, Croesus with his wife and family mounted the funeral pyre, but before the flames could envelop the king, he was snatched up by Apollo and spirited away to the Hyperboreans.

* The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana ( Messina in north-eastern Sicily ), from which they harass the Syracusans.