The Syracusan tyrant: or, The life of Agathocles
Subtitle: With some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers
Contributors: Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1934:1
Publisher: printed for R. Royston, bookseller to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by S. Gape neer the Middle Temple in Fleetstreet
Published: 1661
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Cromwell, Oliver, -- 1599-1658 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800; Agathocles, -- Tyrant of Syracuse, -- 361-289 B.C; Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Controversial literature; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Syracusan tyrant; Life of Agathocles; Tyrant, or, The life of Agathocles; Sicilian tyrant
Notes: Dedication signed: R. P. = Richard Perrinchief. Cf. Wing, McAlpin

Republished in 1676 as: The Sicilian tyrant

Frontispiece = folded plate, depicting "Tyranny" as a soldier, with "Perfidia" and "Crudelitas" holding a wreath of snakes above his head

An attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles

Caption title on p. 1: The tyrant, or The life of Agathocles

Running title: The life of Agathocles

Reproduction of the original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York

Wing (2nd ed.) P1609A

McAlpin. Supp. p. 197

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1934:1).