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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