{"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_I_of_Syracuse", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332750", "qid": "Q332750", "description": "Greek tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 – 367 BC)", "entries": 20, "years": 17, "span": [-431, -356], "span_label": ["432 BCE", "357 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 13}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "dionysius-ii-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius II of Syracuse", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "adriatic", "label": "Adriatic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "crotone", "label": "Crotone", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "plato", "label": "Plato", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lucanians", "label": "Lucanians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thurii", "label": "Thurii", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -431, "year_label": "432 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 367 BC) (approximate birth date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330384213#Births", "title": "432 BC", "revid": 1330384213, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse, confiscates gold and silver coins and re-mints them, keeping the weight the same but changing the denomination from one to two drachmae — the first known official devaluation at the expense of the general population. A virulent inflation ensues (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_topic", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By topic"}}, {"year": -397, "year_label": "398 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, breaks his peace treaty with Carthage and strikes at Carthaginian cities in the western corner of Sicily which have been weakened by the plague. There is a massacre of Carthaginians in many of these cities. Motya, with its fine harbour, is attacked and captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301424638#Sicily", "title": "398 BC", "revid": 1301424638, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -396, "year_label": "397 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Syracuse: A Carthaginian expeditionary army (some 50,000 men) under Himilco crosses to Sicily. They conquer the north coast and put Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse, on the defensive and besiege Syracuse. However, the Carthaginian army suffers from the plague. The Syracuse counterattacked and completely defeat Himilco's army. Himilco has to escape back to Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698502#Carthage", "title": "397 BC", "revid": 1352698502, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -396, "year_label": "397 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius II, son of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 343 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698502#Births", "title": "397 BC", "revid": 1352698502, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Carthaginians are forced to abandon their siege of Syracuse (begun in 398 BC) due to a plague, but destroy Messina. Dionysius' first war with Carthage ends with a notable victory for Dionysius, who confines his enemy's power to an area of northwest Sicily. On his return home, the Carthaginian general, Himilco, commits suicide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Carthage", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -391, "year_label": "392 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse, having increased his power over the native Sicilians (Sicels), is now attacked by a second Carthaginian expedition. He is forced to ally himself with the Sicels. The Carthaginian army, under Mago II, is defeated, makes peace, and returns to Carthage. The treaty with Carthage is advantageous to Dionysius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556748#Sicily", "title": "392 BC", "revid": 1326556748, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -390, "year_label": "391 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse, begins an attempt to extend his rule to the Greek cities of southern Italy. He unsuccessfully besieges Rhegium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650502#Sicily", "title": "391 BC", "revid": 1367650502, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -388, "year_label": "389 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of the Elleporus and the capture of Kroton by Dionysius I of Syracuse", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292700126#Magna_Grecia", "title": "389 BC", "revid": 1292700126, "section": "Events › By place › Magna Grecia"}}, {"year": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Concerned about the revival of Athenian imperialist ambitions, the Persian King Artaxerxes II and King Agesilaus II of Sparta enter into an alliance. Sparta also seeks and gains the support of Dionysius I of Syracuse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Greece", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Plato, having left Athens on Socrates' death to visit Megara and possibly Egypt, travels to Syracuse at the invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Art", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "With the aid of the Lucanians, Dionysius I of Syracuse devastates the territories of Thurii, Crotone, and Locri in mainland Italy. When Rhegium falls, Dionysius becomes the chief power in Greek Southern Italy. He then turns his attention to the Adriatic and founds the colonies of Ancona (Ankon) and Adria (Adrìa).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Sicily_and_Adriatic", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily and Adriatic"}}, {"year": -385, "year_label": "386 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse extends the influence and trade of Syracuse to the Adriatic, establishing colonies at Adria, Ancona and Issa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363395299#Sicily", "title": "386 BC", "revid": 1363395299, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -384, "year_label": "385 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse attempts to restore Alcetas I of Epirus to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1248865885#Greece", "title": "385 BC", "revid": 1248865885, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -383, "year_label": "384 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lysias, the Athenian orator, on the occasion of the Olympiad, rebukes the Greeks for allowing themselves to be dominated by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I and by the barbarian Persians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209990210#Greece", "title": "384 BC", "revid": 1209990210, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -377, "year_label": "378 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I's third war with Carthage proves disastrous. He suffers a crushing defeat at Cronium and is forced to pay an indemnity of 1,000 talents and cede the territory west of the Halycus River to the Carthaginians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279678779#Sicily", "title": "378 BC", "revid": 1279678779, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse dies and is succeeded as tyrant of the city by his son Dionysius II. As the younger Dionysius is weak and inexperienced, Dion, brother-in-law of the elder Dionysius, assumes control and persuades Plato, whose friendship he has acquired, to train the new tyrant in the practical application of his philosophical principles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Sicily", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (b. 430 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Deaths", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -365, "year_label": "366 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The experiment by Dion (brother-in-law of Dionysius I) and Plato to educate the new ruler of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in the practical application of Plato's philosophical principles fails and Dion and Plato are banished from Syracuse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300116023#Sicily", "title": "366 BC", "revid": 1300116023, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -356, "year_label": "357 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The brother-in-law of Dionysius I, Dion, exiled from Syracuse in 366 BC by Dionysius II, assembles a force of 1,500 mercenaries at Zacynthus and sails to Sicily. Dion wrests power from the weak Dionysius II, who is exiled and flees to Locri.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210250153#Sicily", "title": "357 BC", "revid": 1210250153, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}]}