Dionysius I: War-lord of Sicily

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Yale University Press, 1990 - 272 pages
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Introduction The subject of the book and the sources
1
Dionysius accession to power
50
The battle of Gela and the Peace of Himilco
59
The Great Revolt and Dionysius preparations
80
The second Punk War
98
Dionysius dealings with the Italiots and
124
The nature of Dionysius empire
154
The third Punic War
186
Affairs in Greece the fourth Punic War
202
Events following the death of Dionysius
213
Dionysius the man and the soldier
222
Notes with a list of principal sources
254
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Page ix - ... a grant from the Central Research Fund of the University of London.
Page 50 - The amount of postponement among minorities should have varied with relation to the relative emphasis on the family as an end in itself or as a means to an end.
Page 213 - Before proceeding further, however, it will be as well to give a brief account of the origin of this celebrated pilgrimage, and the auspices under which it once was held.
Page 6 - And if it be objected that Dionysius seems generally to have been given the benefit of the doubt, I reply that, after twenty-three and a half centuries of denigration, it is high time that the scales of Justice were restored to a more level plane.
Page 83 - Peisistratus, however, had been a man of peace, who had seized power (leaving aside his private motives) in order to impose on the Athenians the eunomia (social harmony) that Solon had preached but failed to achieve.
Page 188 - Certainly as regards their whole manner and style, chapters 15 to 17 read like an epitome, rather than a continuation of Diodorus
Page 188 - Diodorus' book containing this connected account of the war was subsequently lost, and the resultant gap in the history of the decade was filled by a clumsy epitome...

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