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The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844682966

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This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413 BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Tyrants of Syracuse. Volume II

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399013181

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Tyrants of Syracuse. Volume II by Jeff Champion Pdf

This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413 BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

The Tyrants of Syracuse

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dictatorship
ISBN : LCCN:2010537779

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The Tyrants of Syracuse

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526784270

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The Tyrants of Syracuse by Jeff Champion Pdf

This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume I

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848849341

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Volume one of this sweeping history chronicles the turbulent ancient history of Syracuse from the rise of Gelon to the death of Dionysius I. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was one of the most important city-states of the classical Greek world. Coveted for its wealth and strategic location, it was caught in the middle as Carthage, Epirus, Athens and then Rome each battled to gain control of the region. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups and a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In volume one of The Tyrants of Syracuse, Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars from the Battle of Himera against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I, whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. Within this period, Syracuse heroically defeated the Athenian force that besieged them for more than two years—an event with far-reaching ramifications.

Introduction and translation

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Political science
ISBN : UCLA:31158001050268

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The Politics of Aristotle

Author : Aristotle,Benjamin Jowett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Political science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924005693456

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Rome's Great Eastern War

Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526762696

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Rome's Great Eastern War by Gareth C. Sampson Pdf

This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire’s revitalized push against rising enemies to the East. In the century since Rome’s defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia, and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had grown so bold that it invaded and annexed the whole of Rome’s eastern empire and occupied Greece itself. But as Rome emerged from the devastating effects of the First Civil War, a new breed of general emerged with it, eager to re-assert Roman military dominance and carve out a fresh empire in the east. In Rome’s Great Eastern War, Gareth C. Sampson analyses the military campaigns and battles between a revitalized Rome and the various powers of the eastern Mediterranean hinterland. He demonstrates how this series of conflicts ultimately heralded a new phase in Roman imperial expansion and reshaped the ancient East.

Tyrant

Author : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330526876

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Tyrant by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Pdf

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Tyrant starts in 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.

Plutarch's Lives

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081608626

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The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11631598

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The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Carthage at War

Author : Joshua R Hall
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473885417

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Carthage at War by Joshua R Hall Pdf

The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name. While narrative histories of the Punic wars (especially the second) and biographies of Hannibal abound, there have been few studies dedicated to detailed analysis of Carthaginian armies and warfare throughout the city-state's entire existence. Joshua Hall puts that right with this in-depth study of their tactics, equipment, unit organization, army composition and operational effectiveness. Importantly, while the Second Punic War is rightly given prominence, this is not at the expense of the many earlier wars Carthage waged as she built and then defended her empire. Drawing on all the available archaeological and literary evidence, the author shows the development of Carthage's forces and methods of warfare from the ninth century BC to the city's demise. The result is the most in-depth portrait of the Carthaginian military available in English.