Third Sicilian War
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Was a conflict fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse (Sicily) over the control of Sicily and the western Mediterranean.
Chronology
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September 398 BC: By 398 BC, Dionysius had consolidated his strength and broke the peace treaty, commencing the Siege of Motya and capturing the city.
January 397 BC: Himilco responded decisively to Dionysius I, leading an expedition which not only reclaimed Motya, but also captured Messina.
January 397 BC: Spartan expedition to Ionia in 398 BC. Agesilaus campaigned effectively against the Persians in Lydia, advancing as far inland as Sardis. The satrap Tissaphernes was executed for his failure to contain Agesilaus, and his replacement, Tithraustes, bribed the Spartans to move north, into the satrapy of Pharnabazus, Hellespontine Phrygia.
January 397 BC: Larisa (Troas) is freed by the Spartan Dercylidas in 398 BC.
September 397 BC: Himilco laid siege to Syracuse itself after decisively defeating the Greeks in the naval Battle of Catana. .
January 395 BC: In 396 BC a plague ravaged the Carthaginian forces, and they collapsed.
January 395 BC: Carthage lost her new Greek conquests - Motya, Messina, Selinus, Thermae, Akragas, Gela and Camarina - to Syrakousai.
January 395 BC: Diodorus Siculus writes that the territory of Abakainon was expropriated by Dionysius I, Tyrant of Syracuse.
January 395 BC: In 396 BC, the city of Henna was conquered by the Syracusans, led by the famous Greek general Dionysius I. This marked a significant expansion of Syracusai's territory in Sicily during this time period.
January 395 BC: Morgantina, in 396 BC, was conquered by Dionysius I of Syracuse.
January 395 BC: Henna, in 396 BC, passed into the hands of the Syracusans.
