 The colony successfully fought the Etruscans for control of the Tyrrhenian Sea.Carthaginian forces succeeded in holding the site briefly during their struggles with Dionysios I, tyrant of Syracuse in 394, but once they were gone the "polis" entered a three-way alliance which included Dionysios' new colony at Tyndaris.Lipara prospered, but in 304 Agathokles took the town by treachery and is said to have lost all of his pillage from it in a storm at sea.