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Dionysius

Two tyrants of the ancient Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily. Dionysius the Elder (c. 430–367 BC) seized power in 405 BC. His first two wars with Carthage further extended the power of Syracuse, but in a third (383–378 BC) he was defeated. He was a patron of Plato. He was succeeded by his son, Dionysius the Younger, who was driven out of Syracuse by Dion in 356 BC; he was tyrant again in 353 BC, but in 343 BC returned to Corinth.



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Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are, Pauson as less noble, Dionysius drew them true to life.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
When Dionysius heard this he permitted him to take his money with him, but forbid him to continue any longer in Sicily, as being one who contrived means for getting money inconsistent with his affairs.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis, with so much justice, recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light.
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