{"slug": "lentini", "label": "Lentini", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentini", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488240", "qid": "Q488240", "description": "Italian comune", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-497, -213], "span_label": ["498 BCE", "214 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Leontini"], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "timoleon", "label": "Timoleon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "reggio-calabria", "label": "Reggio Calabria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "catania", "label": "Catania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dionysius-ii-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius II of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marsala", "label": "Marsala", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -497, "year_label": "498 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After the assassination of Cleander, tyrant of Gela, power is transferred to his brother, Hippocrates, who subdues the Sicels and conquers the Chalcidian cities of Callipoli, Leontini, Naxos and Zancle (now known as Messina). He also captures the Syracusan city of Camarina, but is prevented from capturing Syracuse itself when Corinth and Corcyra interferes in the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373138296#Sicily", "title": "498 BC", "revid": 1373138296, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -432, "year_label": "433 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Pericles renews alliances with the Rhegium on the southwest corner of Italy and Leontini in southeast Sicily, threatening Sparta's food supply route from Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173211#Greece", "title": "433 BC", "revid": 1354173211, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -426, "year_label": "427 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician. Leontini is being threatened by Syracuse which is allied to Sparta. However, the Athenian mission led by the Athenian general Laches is unable to offer much help. Laches is later prosecuted by Cleon for his unsuccessful mission to support Athenian interests in Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210114491#Greece", "title": "427 BC", "revid": 1210114491, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -404, "year_label": "405 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius the Elder ruthlessly consolidates and expands his power. He builds a wall around Syracuse and fortifies Epipolae. The Greek citizens of Naxos, Catana, and Leontini are removed from their cities; many of them are enslaved and their homes are given to Sicilian and Italian mercenaries. Dionysius prepares his army to fight against Carthage, which now occupies western and southern Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128832#Sicily", "title": "405 BC", "revid": 1350128832, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -343, "year_label": "344 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The aristocracy of Syracuse appeal to their mother city of Corinth against their tyrant Dionysius II. The Corinthian general Timoleon is chosen to lead a liberation force to Sicily. Landing at Tauromenium (Taormina) on March 21st, Timoleon faces two armies, one under Dionysius and the other under Hicetas (tyrant of nearby Leontini), who has also called in Carthaginian forces. By shrewd tactics Timoleon defeats his enemies and occupies Syracuse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172872#Sicily", "title": "344 BC", "revid": 1354172872, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -339, "year_label": "340 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Hicetas, the tyrant of Leontini, again persuades Carthage to send a large army to Sicily, which lands at Lilybaeum. Timoleon of Syracuse meets this large Carthaginian army in the Battle of the Crimissus in the west of Sicily and achieves a brilliant victory against superior odds. Despite this victory, the Carthaginians continue to occupy the western half of Sicily, with a treaty being concluded that confines the Carthaginians to the area west of the Halycus (Platani) River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239354213#Sicily", "title": "340 BC", "revid": 1239354213, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -337, "year_label": "338 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Carthage makes another effort to conquer all of Sicily. The Carthaginians dispatch some mercenaries to extend the conflict between Timoleon and the Sicilian tyrants. But this effort ends in the defeat of Hicetas, the tyrant of Leontini, who is taken prisoner and put to death. By a treaty between Syracuse and Carthage, the dominion of Carthage in Sicily is confined to the lands west of the Halycus (Platani) River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172728#Sicily", "title": "338 BC", "revid": 1354172728, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -213, "year_label": "214 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "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. With the help of Archimedes' ideas and inventions, the Syracusans repel his attacks by sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325637807#Roman_Republic", "title": "214 BC", "revid": 1325637807, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}