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Encyclopedia Britannica



DION

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 283 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DION ,
tyrant
  of Syracuse (408353 B.C.), the son of Hipparinus,
and brother-in-law of
Dionysius
  the
Elder
 . In his youth he, was an admirer and
pupil
  of Plato, whom
Dionysius
  had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the
tyrant
 . The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic power, succeeded in procuring his banishment on account of alleged intrigues with the Carthaginians. The exiled philosopher retired to Athens, where he was at first permitted to enjoy his revenues in peace; but the intercession of Plato (who had again visited Syracuse to procure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the tyrant, and at length provoked him to confiscate the property of Dion, and give his wife to another. This last outrage roused Dion. Assembling asmall force at Zacynthus, he sailed to
Sicily
  (357) and was received with demonstrations of joy. Dionysius, who was in
Italy
 , returned to
Sicily
 , but was defeated and obliged to flee. Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished. The incompetency of the new
leader
  and the cruelties of Apollocrates, the son of Dionysius, soon led to his recall. He had, however, scarcely made himself master of Sicily when the
people
  began to express their discontent with his tyrannical conduct, and he was assassinated by Callippus, a.n Athenian who had accompanied him in his expedition.
See Lives by
Plutarch
  and Cornelius Nepos (cf. Diod. 'Sic. xvi. 6-2o) and in
modern
  times by T. Lau (186o) ; see also SYRACUSE and SICILY : History.


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