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Two tyrants of the ancient Greek city of
Syracuse in Sicily. Dionysius the Elder
(432-367 BC) seized power in 405. 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
(see also Damocles). He was succeeded by his
son, Dionysius the Younger, who was driven
out of Syracuse by Dion in 356; he was tyrant
again in 353, but in 343 returned to Corinth.