The siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 213–212 BC. The Romans successfully stormed the Hellenistic city of Syracuse after a protracted siege, giving them control of the entire islan
Archimedes Directing the Defenses of Syracuse by Thomas Ralph Spence (1895)
Hiero II of Syracuse calls Archimedes to fortify the city by Sebastiano Ricci (1720s)
Detail of a wall painting of the Claw of Archimedes sinking a ship (c. 1600)
Archimedes sets Roman ships on fire before Syracuse with the help of parabolic mirrors.
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Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his s
Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC)
…giving them control of the entire island of Sicily. During the siege, the city was protected by weapons developed by the prominent inventor and polymath Archimedes, who was slain at the conclusion of the siege by a Roman soldier, in contravention of the Roman proconsul Marcellus's instructions to spare his life…
Archimedes Thoughtful (1620)
Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1805) by Benjamin West
Front page of Archimedes' Opera, in Greek and Latin, edited by David Rivault (1615)
Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle found in the Archimedes Palimpsest