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Tyrant

by: Valerio Massimo Manfredi (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9781405040914 (1405040912)

Publish date: February 4th 2005

Publisher: Macmillan

Pages no: 406

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, European Literature, Historical Fiction, Italian Literature

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http://davidsarkies.booklikes.com Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd 2.0 A story based around a footnote in history

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This is a story about the rise and fall of Dionysius of Syracuse, a tyrant who unified the island of Sicily under Greek rule and then pushed the Carthaginians back to North Africa. While I have heard of him I don't for the life of me know of the ancient sources for this guy, and nobody that I have s...

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Tyrant (War Between Ancient Carthage & Sicily 480 BC )Blurb - Bravery, brutality and adventure. And the rest is history. Sicily 405 AD: the infinite duel between man and superpower begins. Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, will face Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Dionysius b...

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