Ward, John, 1832-1912, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : J. Murray · leaf 309
m anartistic point of view,being in the simplestyle of the Corinth-ian mint. Tyranny got theupper hand again whenAgathocles seizedthe government, 317B.C. This adventurerwas unscrupulous, hegradually increased inaudacity, as his threeissues of coins show. On the first he put only SYPAKoZmN—the… … Latomia, Ortygia in the Distance, Syracuse. SYRACUSAN WAR WITH ATHENS, AOATHOCLES, HIE RON IL 213 coinages are engraved on Ilatc VJll. [314 t.. 329]. Tlie story of Agathoclesis an interesting one ; he carried the war into Africa against the Carthaginians,who had invaded Syracusan temtory, and some…
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