Sicilian Greeks during the first Punic war

[eugene]

Are there any researches concerning the role of the Sicilian Greeks in the First Punic war and their relations with Rome and Carthage?

[Scipio_Africanus]

Hi,

You talk about their participation in the conflict ?
In Polybe's book, he speaks about the war beetween Rome and Carthage during the first punic War, and says a little information about Silician Greeks participation, just two informations i've remembered :

Messina is the reason of war, because of the presence of Mamertin. The support of Rome to this city provokes the first confrontation with Carthage.

And Syracuse... main greek city of the Sicily territory, in the first instance was with Carthage, but after some reverse and with a leader change, join Rome against Carthage.

Syracuse stay with Rome during all the rest of the conflict. And support Roman army in the conquest of the Carthaginian territory.

Syracuse will stay with Rome until the beginning of the Second Punic War.

[eugene]

I know this fact. I am interested in modern researches on this theme.

[Scipio_Africanus]

I didn't know you knew this fact, your first post was not very precised.
I will try to do some researches myself for you're question...

But exactly, what informations do you want ?

Definition of "role" : the function or position that somebody has or is expected to have in an organization, in society or in a relationship.

So i have responded to that point, and my source was Polybe. According to you he wasn't totally impartial with his description of facts concerning the Roman's side, but certainly he has gave a real idea of the greek position in this war.
With modern researches (twenty years ago), a lot of historians, specialised in the Punic history, arrived in conclusion that Carthage was influenced a lot by the Greek culture in this period.

I think the Sicilian Greeks culture, and Carthaginian culture, were close one of the other one.

Scipio

[Epictetus]

Eugene, have you tried Scirus or Google Scholar? I've found a lot of obscure, specialised stuff that way. Just try some searches, and when you get some interesting results do some research on those finds to see if they are what you are looking for.

http://www.scirus.com/

http://scholar.google.com/

[dark41]

I know this fact. I am interested in modern researches on this theme.

I recently participated in a panel on the First Punic War. There is a fair amount of involvement.

There is a very recent edited volume on the Punic Wars
1) A Companion to the Punic Wars- Dexter Hoyos (Editor)- Wiley-Blackwell (2011)ISBN: 978-1-4051-7600-2
2) The First Punic War: A Military History - J. F. Lazenby (Author) - Stanford (1996) ISBN-13: 978-0804726740

As far as ancient authors, besides Polybios, see Diodorus Siculus, Appian's "Punic Wars" - both have a lot of information that might be helpful.

Feel free to drop me a message if there is more info you would like.
Dan