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''[[The Sand-Reckoner]]'' by Gillian Bradshaw is a [[Historical Fiction]] novel focusing on Archimedes as a young man during the First Punic War. Returning to his hometown of Syracuse when it goes to war with Rome, Archimedes offers himself up to the city's tyrant as a military engineer.
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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: At the end of the book, Archimedes has become one, having seen firsthand and been disgusted by what his war engines do to people.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Hieron, the tyrant of Syracuse.
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