List of sieges of Syracuse

The city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily southwest of the Italian peninsula, has been besieged repeatedly since its founding as a Greek colony, including the following:


 * Before the Common Era, while a Greek colony or Hellenistic state:
 * 415–413 by the Athenians during the Sicilian Expedition
 * 397 by the Carthaginians
 * 343 by Hicetas, the Carthaginians and Timoleon
 * 311–09 by the Carthaginians
 * 278 by the Carthaginians
 * 214–2 by the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War (and subject of film L'Assedio di Siracusa)
 * In the Common Era, while a Byzantine province, by the Aghlabids:
 * 827–8
 * 868
 * 877–8