3rd-century BC Syracusans

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 surviving work, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity, and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove many geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere

Greek tyrant of Syracuse from 317 to 289 BC

3rd-century BC Sicilian Greek ruler

3rd century BCE tyrant

Son of the Tyrant of Syracuse

3rd century BC tyrant of Syracuse

Syracusan princess, daughter of Theoxena of Syracuse and Agathocles of Syracuse

ancient Greek poet

thumb|right|Syracusan coin with portrait of Philistis (left) Philistis, the wife of Hieron II, was a queen of ancient Syracuse, Magna Graecia, known from her coins, which are numerous, and of fine workmanship, and from the occurrence of her name (bearing the title of queen, as it does also on her coins) in some Greek inscriptions on the stands of the theater of Tauromenium (Taormina). The circumstance that it is here associated with that of Nereis, the wife of Gelon II, as well as the style and fabric of the coins, which closely resemble those of Hieron II and his son, leads to the conclusion

Antander ( - or Andro as he is called by the historian Orosius) was a man of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, of the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE. He was the older brother of Agathocles, king of Syracuse, and was a commander -- or strategos -- of the troops sent by the Syracusans to the relief of Crotona when it was besieged by the Bruttii tribe in 317.

daughter of Gelo