Tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC)

Usage examples of dionysius.

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.