With the Punic Wars, the expansionist aims of the Romans also materialised in southern Italy. With its fertile land and strategic position at the centre of the Mediterranean, Sicily was named the first Roman Province in 241 BC, after its partial conquest. Pro-Carthaginian Syracuse initially remain...

At the behest of the Sicilians, with whom a few years earlier he had proven himself to be an excellent quaestor of [approfondimenti id="4973" testo_link="Lilybaeum"], Cicero returned to Sicily and landed at Heraclea, where he was welcomed by a population that demanded justice for the misdeeds it had...

Though the advent of the Romans seemed at first to be a precursor of a bloody domination, destroying the splendour of ancient Akragas, described in depth by [approfondimenti id="4957" testo_link="Goethe"] centuries later, in 198 BC, Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus began the reconstruction of the ...