Tyrant
Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Over the next eight years, Dionysius' brutal military conquests will strike down...
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Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Over the next eight years, Dionysius' brutal military conquests will strike down countless enemies and many friends to make Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece. He builds the largest army of antiquity and invents horrific war machines to use against the Carthaginians, who he will fight in five wars. But who was Dionysius? Historians have condemned him as one of the most ruthless, egocentric despots. But he was also patron of the arts, a dramatist, poet and tender lover.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780330526876 (0330526871)
Publish date: March 18th 2011
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
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...
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...