{"slug": "sicels", "label": "Sicels", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicels", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959419", "qid": "Q959419", "description": "Italic tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily during the Iron Age", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-497, -391], "span_label": ["498 BCE", "392 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Siculi"], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "ducetius", "label": "Ducetius", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "gela", "label": "Gela", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "catania", "label": "Catania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hiero-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Hiero I of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "agrigento", "label": "Agrigento", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "messina", "label": "Messina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lentini", "label": "Lentini", "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": -490, "year_label": "491 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, loses his life in a battle against the Siculi, the native Sicilian people. He is succeeded as Tyrant of Gela by Gelo, who had been his commander of cavalry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364322520#Sicily", "title": "491 BC", "revid": 1364322520, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -459, "year_label": "460 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, takes advantage of the confusion that follows the collapse of the tyranny in Syracuse and other Sicilian states. With the support of the Syracusan democracy, he drives out the colonists of the former tyrant Hieron from Catana and restores it to its original inhabitants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173290#Siculi", "title": "460 BC", "revid": 1354173290, "section": "Events › Siculi"}}, {"year": -458, "year_label": "459 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Sicilian town of Morgantina was destroyed by Ducetius, Hellenised leader of the Siculi (according to Diodorus Siculus).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354678972#Sicily", "title": "459 BC", "revid": 1354678972, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "After minor preliminary successes (including the capture of Inessa from its Greek colonists), Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Syracuse and Acragas. Ducetius flees to exile in Corinth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Sicily", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -445, "year_label": "446 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, the Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, returns from exile in Corinth to Sicily and colonises Cale Acte on the north coast with Greek and Siculi settlers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372038982#Sicily", "title": "446 BC", "revid": 1372038982, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -439, "year_label": "440 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238578#Deaths", "title": "440 BC", "revid": 1242238578, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -391, "year_label": "392 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse, having increased his power over the native Sicilians (Sicels), is now attacked by a second Carthaginian expedition. He is forced to ally himself with the Sicels. The Carthaginian army, under Mago II, is defeated, makes peace, and returns to Carthage. The treaty with Carthage is advantageous to Dionysius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556748#Sicily", "title": "392 BC", "revid": 1326556748, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}]}