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Tyrant
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780330426541
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 0330426540
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
Publisher: Pan Books
Studio: Pan Books
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Rating:  - Enlightening and novel
I'm a history buff who reads a lot of historical novel, so it ain't easy to impress me. But this book certainly did. In fact, it's what got me started on reading historical novels in the first place.
Few authors know the Greek stuff as well as this Italian dude. Frankly, everytime you read it, it makes me feel like he's Greek, but he'd sooner choke on spaghetti than the best gyro in Athens.
Tyrant tells the story of Dionysus the Elder, a man born in Greek Sicilian city of ... Read More
Rating: - Historical Fiction at it's Best
Few authors can be better equipped to write about the history of ancient Greece and Rome than Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Professor of archaeology at the university of Milan, he has carried out many excavations and expeditions in the Mediterranean region. He has produced many factual books on historical matters, mainly military and has still found the time to write several novels and this is one of the best of them.
I think that this is one of the authors best books to date and he has written ... Read More
Rating:  - Informative but not excellent
Tyrant by Manfredi is a very informative and well researched book. The book gives us a wealth of information about Sicily- geographic and political- the relations with Sparta and Athens. It is also interesting for someone who has read accounts of the Peloponnesian war to see some of the events occuring in the backdrop and their impact on Sicily.
However there are quite a few things about the book that impact its quality. One is the translation. I am unaware of how the author builds the narrative in ... Read More
Rating:  - A Rewarding, Informative Book
This is my first Manfredi book, but I frequently read historical fiction. This book is a biography about a historical character, not an adventure or event set in the past.
The protagonist of the biography has great strengths and great flaws. The evolution of the character during the story gives the reader cause to often reevaluate my views of the protagonist.
I also liked that the book was well researched while being set in a time and place that is less discussed than others. I feel ... Read More
Rating: - Just as I expected
Bravery, brutality and adventure. And the rest is history. Sicily 405 AD: the infinite duel between man and superpower begins. Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, will face Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Dionysius brutal military conquests transform Syracuse into the most powerful Greek city west of the mainland.Biulding the largest army of antiquity he marches to Carthage to fight a war to end all wars.
The thundering new historical epic from the Sunday Times bestselling master of ... Read More
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