Timoleon was a Corinthian general from the 4th century BC, famous for killing his brother Timophanes, who had tried to proclaim himself tyrant of Corinth.
For this reason he was called upon by the Sicilians of Syracuse, to protect the city from the tyrant Dionysius the Younger and the threat of the Carthaginians who were trying to conquer the entire island of Sicily.
Timoleon’s expedition therefore became a fight against the island’s tyrants and ended with the liberation of the Greek cities of Sicily from Carthaginian rule.
