Tyrant

Name: Tyrant
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
ISBN: 9781405040914

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

04/02/2005
Macmillan

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Tyrant par Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Résumé

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.