After Timoleon's death, Sicily enjoyed an unprecedented twenty-year period of peace and prosperity. Things were not so quiet in the East, however. The Macedonians, under Philip II and his son Alexander, soon to be known as the Great, had forged in twelve short years an empire that covered the known world from Greece to India. In the wake of Alexander's sudden demise, a host of would-be successors vied to share in the Great Macedonian's glory, including Agathocles, last and most brutal of the tyrants of Sicily.
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Episode 12 - The Battle for Carthage
Episode 11 - The Enemy in Africa
Episode 10 - Syracuse in Retreat
Episode 8 - Timoleon and the End of the Second Sicilian War
Episode 7 - Dionysius the Tyrant
Episode 6 - Carthage Strikes Back
Episode 5 - Syracuse, Sicily, and the Hellenes
Episode 4 - A Punic Sea
Episode 3 - Qart-Hadasht - The New City
Episode 2 - Dido's Drama
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