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Tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC)
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dionysius
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Dionysius was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent as ambassador to the court of the Indian emperor Ashoka , by Ptolemy Philadelphus . He was preceded in this role by Megasthenes , ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya , and Deimachus , ambassador to ...
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From the Ionian tyrants to the Athenian demagogues, from the austere integrity of an Agesilaus to the excesses of a Dionysius or a Demetrius, from the treason of Demaratus to the fidelity of Philopoemen, everything that any one of us can do to help or to hinder his fellow man has been done, at least once, by a Greek.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Romanized Greek rhetorician of the Augustan Age, stated frankly that he wrote his Archæ.
I said, recalling our conversation in Munich and the words I had overheard through the Ear of Dionysius.