person
Dionysius I
Dionysius
also: Dionysius, Dionysius the tyrant
Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432–367 BC), the archetype of Sicilian one-man rule whose maxims and example shadow Hieronymus and Adranodorus; he had once taken the citadel of Croton by guile.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §3 Dionysius, tyrant of Sicily
Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432–367 BC), who had once taken the citadel of Croton by guile; his domineering style is the model of Syracuse's later tyrants.