The War Between Rome and Carthage

A group of mercenaries from campania called the mamertines had been hired by agathocoles to fight his war with the carthaginians for control of sicily between three 15 and three o five b c. The mercenaries took a shine to masona and decided to seize control of the city for themselves and see if anyone would stop them. Over the course of the next decade, the major shift in sicilian power politics was the rise of hyro in syracuse and his ambition to control the whole island. In the department of strange bedfellows, the rise of hiro threatened both themamertines and the carthagenians. So in