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This book studies Agathokles of Syracuse, who ruled Sicily in the period after Alexander the Great and was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. It places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in the eastern Mediterranean that mark the start of the Hellenistic era.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Agathokles' Life and Times
- PART I: REPRESENTATIONS OF AGATHOKLES
- 2: Historiography
- 3: Telling Tales About the King
- 4: Coinage
- PART II: THE RULERSHIP OF AGATHOKLES
- 5: Tyrannosiculus Rex
- PART III: THE WORLD OF AGATHOKLES
- 6: Sicily
- 7: Carthage
- 8: Italy
- 9: Mainland Greece and the Diadochoi
- Conclusion: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King
- Appendix I: The Lokrian Tablets
- Appendix II: Coin Catalogue
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Christopher de Lisle is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Supernumerary Fellow of University College, Oxford. He holds a DPhil in Ancient History from Oxford and an undergraduate and Master's degree in Classics from Victoria University of Wellington. His work focuses on the history and numismatics of ancient Sicily and Athenian epigraphy.
Summary
This book studies Agathokles of Syracuse, who ruled Sicily in the period after Alexander the Great and was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. It places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in the eastern Mediterranean that mark the start of the Hellenistic era.
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The volume's strength lies especially in de Lisle's ability to explain very complex scenarios with clarity in order to make his argument accessible to both students and scholars. The treatment of the numismatic evidence, and the chronological model of Agathokles' coinage put forward by de Lisle will also no doubt prove influential in future scholarship.
