Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

He was twice banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party in Syracuse.

In 311 BC Agathocles was besieged and defeated in Syracuse in the battle of Himera.

Archimedes of Syracuse (; BC – BC ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

Following high school, he was majoring in communications and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, before he dropped out of school.

Importantly, Syracuse was granted nominal independent ally status for the lifetime of Hiero II, and was not incorporated into the Roman province of Sicily until after it was sacked by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Second Punic War.

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

In 1920, he became the stage manager for the Knickerbocker Players, a troupe that shuttled between Syracuse and Rochester, New York, and the following year he was hired as general manager of the newly formed Lyceum Players, an upstate summer stock company.

He was recruited to work on a variety of projects, including the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the Sundrome terminal at Idlewild Airport in New York City, and dormitories at New College of Florida.

She was the founder of Syracuse Oratory School, and Baum advertised his services in her catalog to teach theatre, including stage business, playwriting, directing, and translating ( French, German, and Italian ), revision, and operettas, though he was not employed to do so.

In historical times, Megara was an early dependency of Corinth, in which capacity colonists from Megara founded Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse in Sicily.

He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University, but he recalled in his 2006 memoir, Just One More Thing, that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school.

In the 17th year of the war, word came to Athens that one of their distant allies in Sicily was under attack from Syracuse.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

The delay was costly and forced the Athenians into a major sea battle in the Great Harbor of Syracuse.

** Syracuse: There was a harvest festival of Demeter and Persephone at Syracuse when the grain was ripe ( about May ).

The citizens of Syracuse at one point attempted to convince the Holy See to officially endorse the sainthood of the pope, but this was not successful.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

Following several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was founded independent of the college in 1870.

The university was founded as coeducational, and President Peck stated at the opening ceremonies, " The conditions of admission shall be equal to all persons ... there shall be no invidious discrimination here against woman .... brains and heart shall have a fair chance ... " Syracuse implemented this policy with a high proportion of women students.

* May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, now an international women's fraternity, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.

* November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University.

* 734 BC: Syracuse ( Sicily ) was founded as a colony by Corinth

The ancient settlement at Motia, founded in the 8th century BC, was destroyed by the Syracuse tyrant Dionysius the Elder in 379 BC.

* 734 BC — Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias of Corinth.

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.

Other enterprises founded by Italian Americans were Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the Syracuse Nationals basketball team-later to become the Philadelphia 76ers.

As late as 385 BC the Parians, in conjunction with Dionysius of Syracuse, founded a colony on the Illyrian island of Pharos ( Hvar ).

The museum was founded by Ann Harithas, artist and long-time supporter of the Art Car movement, and James Harithas, former director of the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D. C., the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and current director of the Station Museum, Houston, Texas.

Greeks from Syracuse in Sicily in 390 BC came to the islands of Vis ( Issa ), Hvar ( Pharos ), and Korčula ( Corcyra Nigra ), and there have founded city-states in which they lived quite isolated.

* Syracuse Triad, three women's sororities founded at Syracuse University

Alpha Gamma Delta ( ΑΓΔ ) is an international women's fraternity, founded in 1904 at Syracuse University.

250pxAlpha Gamma Delta was officially founded on May 30, 1904 at the home of Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington, a professor at Syracuse University who was instrumental in the early development of Alpha Gamma Delta.

The city was founded around 385 BC as a Greek colony by Dionysius I of Syracuse by the name of Lissos ( Λισσός ), as part of a strategy by Dionysius to secure Syracusan trade routes along the Adriatic.

At a later period the project was resumed by the Sikel leader Ducetius, who, after his expulsion from Sicily by Syracuse and his exile at Corinth, returned at the head of a body of colonists from the Peloponnese ; and having obtained much support from the neighbouring Siculi, especially from Archonides, dynast of Herbita, according to Diodorus Siculus founded a city on the coast, which was called Kalè Akté ( The Fair Shore or Beautiful Coast ).

The Temple of the People was founded in Syracuse, New York in 1898 by William Dower and Francia LaDue, members of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society.

The roots of the Newhouse School are found in Syracuse University ’ s former School of Journalism, which was founded in 1934.

It took root at no fewer than fourteen colleges in those latter days: Omega was founded at University of Chicago in 1864 ; Pi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1865 ; Lambda, Bowdoin College, 1867 ; Beta, University of Virginia, 1868 ; Psi, Cornell University, 1868 ; Iota, UC Berkeley, 1870 ; Gamma, first at the US Naval Academy in 1874, and then at Syracuse College in 1875 after the government proscribed Fraternities at its military academies ; Theta Xi, University of Toronto, 1879 ; Alpha, Columbia University, 1879 ; Alpha Psi, McGill University, 1883 ; Nu, Case Western Reserve, 1884 ; Eta, Yale, 1889 ; Mu, Stanford, 1892 ; Alpha Beta, University of Minnesota, 1899 ( The establishment of the Eta chapter at Yale made Zeta Psi the only fraternity to establish chapters at all eight Ivy-League schools ).

In the 4th century BC, the Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius the Elder, founded the colony Issa on the island.

) Scymnus Chius follows a different tradition, as he describes the establishment of the Chalcidians at Naxos and that of the Megarians at Hybla as contemporary, and both preceding the foundation of Syracuse, 734 BC.

Historical records start with the Phoenicians, who established colonies in the 11th century BCE, and especially with the Greeks, who founded the colony of Syracuse, which eventually became the largest Greek city, in 734 BCE.

Corinthians and Teneans in 734 or 733 BC under the leadership of Archias established the joint colony of Syracuse in Sicily, the homeland of Archimedes.