1st Edition
Dionysius I of Syracuse and Greek Tyranny (Routledge Revivals)
By Concordia Univ
Copyright 2014
202 Pages
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Routledge
201 Pages
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Routledge
201 Pages
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Routledge
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Professor Sanders’ full-length study of Dionysius I, one of the most powerful figures of fourth-century BC Greece, is the first to appear in English, and marks an important reassessment of the ‘tyrant’ of Syracuse.
Dionysius I regularly appears in the surviving historical accounts as a tyrant in the worst – modern – sense of the word: cruelty, intransigence, arrogance are all part of this... Read more
Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The Origins of the Hostile Tradition 2. The Pre-Diodorus Historiographical Tradition 3. Diodorus and Dionysius; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index Nominum et Locorum
Biography
Sanders, Lionel Jehuda
