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Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé. Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder (c. 432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies.
Dionysius II of Syracuse was the son of Dionysius the Elder and Doris of Locri.When his father died in 367 BC, Dionysius, who was at the time under thirty years old, and completely inexperienced in public affairs, [1] inherited the supreme power and began ruling under the supervision of his uncle, Dion, whose disapproval of the young Dionysius's lavishly dissolute lifestyle compelled him to ...
The siege of Syracuse from 344 to 343/342 BC was part of a war between the Syracusan general Hicetas and the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II. The conflict became more complex when Carthage and Corinth became involved. The Carthaginians had made an alliance with Hicetas to expand their power in Sicily.
Dionysius attacked the Phoenician city of Motya in 398 BC, igniting the first of four wars he was to lead against Carthage between 398-368. [2] After the sack of Motya, Dionysius retired to Syracuse, while Himilco of Carthage arrived in Sicily with 50,000 men along with 400 triremes and 600 transports to continue the war. [3] in 397.
An Illyrian invasion against the Molossians in Epirus occurred in 385 BC. Illyrians, led by king Bardylis, [3] were supported by Dionysius I of Syracuse who was aiming to expand his influence in the eastern Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea, and by Alcetas I of Epirus who was expelled from his land by the Molossian pro-Spartan party and exiled in Syracuse.
Dionysius II of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC.; son of Dionysius I Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
Dionysius II may refer to: Dionysius II of Syracuse (c. 397 BC – 343 BC), tyrant of Syracuse; Patriarch Dionysius II of Antioch, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch in 896–909; Patriarch Dionysius II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1546–1556; Mar Dionysius II (1742–1816), Malankara Metropolitan 1815–1816
Syracuse (Ancient Greek: Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia. The city was founded by settlers from Corinth in 734 or 733 BCE , and was conquered by the Romans in 212 BCE, after which it became the seat of Roman rule in Sicily.