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Headword:
Diôn
Adler number: delta,1238
Translated headword: Dion, Dio
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Hipparinos; a Syracusan, a Platonic philosopher. [He was] the brother of Aristomache, the wife of the older
Dionysius, tyrant of
Sicily.[1] He also ruled over
Sicily as tyrant, expelling
Dionysius, the son of the older
Dionysius,[2] whose brother Nisaios in turn expelled this
Dion.[3] He wrote letters to
Plato and to some others.[4]
Greek Original:Diôn, Hipparinou, Surakousios, philosophos Platônikos, tou Sikelias turannou Dionusiou tou proterou tês gametês Aristomachês adelphos: hos kai ekratêse tês Sikelias turannidos, ekbalôn ton tou proterou Dionusiou huion Dionusion: hou palin adelphos Nisaios exebale Diôna touton. egrapsen epistolas pros Platôna kai allous tinas.
Notes:
c.408-353 BCE; OCD(4) s.v.
Dion (by B.M. Caven).
The present entry corresponds closely with material in the
scholia to
Plato's Letters, at 320A; on this and the other primary sources see Westlake (below) 693-5.
[1]
Dionysius I of Syracuse (c.430-367 BCE). See
delta 1178.
[2]
Dion seized Syracuse in 357 BCE, when
Dionysius II was absent in Italy. For
Dionysius II of Syracuse see
delta 1179.
[3] Nisaios is an iotacism for Nysaios. The Suda is mistaken, for
Dion was assassinated by Kallippos, who was in turn replaced by Hipparinos and Nysaios, the half-brothers of
Dionysius II.
Dionysius II returned from
Locri in 346 and drove out Nysaios.
[4]
Dion is known to have written letters to
Plato and
Speusippus but none of these has survived.
References:
Berve, H. Dion. Mainz : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1957. (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Nr.10, 1956)
Kroll, W. 'Nysaios' in RE 17.2, col.1661
Westlake, H.D. in Cambridge Ancient History vol.6 edn.2 (1994) chap.13
Keywords: biography; geography; history; philosophy; politics; women
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 17 March 2002@01:47:28.
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