Ancient & modern

The Spectator | July 7, 2001| | Copyright

POPULAR belief has it that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the recently released killers of James Bulger, are about to pay for their crimes with an easeful life of state-cushioned, millionaire luxury. It was what Damocles thought about the life of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse - until he tried it. The Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero (106-43 BC) tells the story.

Dionysius was a ruler of many talents and enormous wealth, but unscrupulous and unjust, keeping Syracuse crushed under an oppressive burden of slavery. The result was that he could trust nobody. Terrified that his barber ...

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