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Marcus Claudius Marcellus took Syracuse in 212 BC after a two-year siege. He had ordered Archimedes spared. He arrived at the mathematician's house to find him dead by a Roman soldier's spear. Marcellus had the killer executed, gave Archimedes a state funeral, and is recorded as having wept publicly at the destruction of the captured city.
Read the story →Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the Roman consul who finally captured Syracuse in 212 BC after a two-year siege. He had given specific orders that the mathematician Archimedes was to be taken alive; one of his soldiers killed him anyway. Marcellus wept at the news and had Archimedes buried with full honours.
Read the story →Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the Roman consul who finally took Syracuse in 212 BC after a two-year siege. He had ordered Archimedes spared and reportedly wept when he learned the mathematician had been killed anyway. Three years later Marcellus was ambushed and killed by Hannibal's scouts in southern Italy.
Read the story →After two years of siege, the Romans broke into Syracuse. A junior soldier found a seventy-five-year-old man drawing in the sand and made the worst mistake of his career.
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