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Sanders, Lionel Jehuda

DIONYSIUS I OF SYRACUSE AND GREEK TYRANNY Good with no dust jacket

Croom Helm, 1987

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Year of publication
1987
Author
Sanders, Lionel Jehuda
Publishers
Croom Helm
Keyword
Greek History Tyranny Syracuse Propaganda Greece Sicily, Classical Greek & Roman Plato
Cover description
Good with no dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0709954034

Description

Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, call numbers and pocket. ; Argues that the hostile picture of Dionysius that has come down to us, ultimately popularised in the negative account of Dionysius' arch-foe, the third century BC historian, Timaeus of Tauromenium, is basically Athenian, deriving from Athenian political circles engaged in propaganda aimed at tarnishing the tyrant's reputation. ; 189 pages