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	Syracuse - Wikipédia
		Syracuse (Siracusa en Italien) est une ville italienne située sur la côte, au Sud-Est de la Sicile.
		Syracuse essaima en Sicile et fonda plusieurs cités : Akrai en -664, Camarina en -589...
		Sous le règne du tyran Denys l'Ancien (-405--367), Syracuse envoie des mercenaires (Dix Mille)pour aider le perse Cyrus le Jeune dans sa révolte contre le souverain achéménide Artaxerxès II Mnèmon.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syracuse (1136 words)

	SEVENTH LETTER Plato 360 BC Part Two Translated by J. Harward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dionysios said that, when he had put the affairs of his empire in a position of greater safety for himself, he would send for Dion and me again; and he desired that Dion should regard what had befallen him not as an exile, but as a change of residence.
		And if Dionysios does any of the things which he says, I shall have accomplished something that is not altogether to be sneered at; for Dion's property is, at a fair estimate, perhaps not less than a hundred talents.
		Dionysios was trying to get hold of him, and being unable to do so, sent for Theodotes to come to him in his garden.
	uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com /plato_seventh_letter02.htm (4418 words)

	Encyclopedia: Morgantina
		No further mention of Morgantina is made until Thucydides lists it as part of the terms of a truce in the war of 427â“424 BCE between Syracuse and the Dorian cities of Sicily on one side, and Kamarina, the Khalkidian cities of Sicily, the Sikels, and Athens on the other side.
		Morgantina therefore must have been independent from at least this date, although it was soon re-captured by Dionysios of Syracuse in 396.
		Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelo.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morgantina (2512 words)

	THE SEVENTH LETTER Plato 360 BC Part One Translated by J. Harward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The result was that until the death of Dionysios he lived in a way which rendered him somewhat unpopular among those whose manner of life was that which is usual in the courts of despots.
		Further, he thought it essential that I should come to Syracuse by all manner of means and with the utmost possible speed to be his partner in these plans, remembering in his own case how readily intercourse with me had produced in him a longing for the noblest and best life.
		And if it should produce a similar effect on Dionysios, as his aim was that it should, he had great hope that, without bloodshed, loss of life, and those disastrous events which have now taken place, he would be able to introduce the true life of happiness throughout the whole territory.
	uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com /plato_seventh_letter01.htm (3094 words)

	Syracuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syracuse was settled in 734 B.C. by Corinthian colonists led by the aristocrat Archias.
		Syracuse became the seat of the Roman government in Sicily, and remained such until the Byzantine epoch.
		Furthermore, the men of Syracuse proved to have the gift of leadership, with the result that when the Syracusans were ruled by tyrants they lorded it over the rest, and when set free themselves they set free those who were oppressed by the barbarians”.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/syracuse.htm (3341 words)

	Dionysius I of Syracuse
		432-367 BC), tyrant of Syracuse, began life as a clerk in a public office, but by courage and diplomacy succeeded in making himself supreme.
		He carried on war with Carthage with varying success; his attempts to drive the Carthaginians entirely out of the island (Sicily) failed, and at his death they were masters of at least a third of it.
		The Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse is named after Dionysius.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dionysios_of_Syracuse (379 words)

	Battle of Gela(405 BC)
		Dionysios of Syracuse answered the Geloan call for help, raising an army of 31,000 comprised of his own 1,000 man guard, 10,000 Siciliots, 10,000 Italiots, and 10,000 Syracusans (including 1,000 cavalry), Sikeliots and assorted mercenaries.
		The balance of Dionysios' army was to pass through the city, joined on route by the Geloan garrison, and sortie through the Akragas Gate to fall on the main Carthaginian camp, destroying their seige equipment as they advanced.
		The General Dionysios and his division are deployed in column at the entrance to Gela and must transit the BUA before they can join the battle.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/gela.html (762 words)

	DBA Armies: Syracusan (DBA II/9)
		Syracuse was a colony of Corinth; it was the most important Greek colony on Sicily.
		Syracuse also imported Greek generals; the most famous was Timoleon who helped rid Syracuse of Dionysios the second and then defeat Carthage and was most notable for not becoming a tyrant afterwards.
		Agathokles is defeated by the Carthaginians at Licata and besieged in Syracuse
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/II09.html (1538 words)

	Ars Floreat - Plato en Sokrates
		Het menselijk ras zal geen harmonie vinden zolang koningen geen wijzen worden of wijze mensen geen koning.
		Chr., toen Plato 40 jaar oud was, kwam hij in de gelegenheid om het hof van Dionysios I van Syracuse te bezoeken.
		Later, toen hij in de zestig was, maakte hij twee reizen om de zoon van deze tyran, Dionysios II, te bezoeken, speciaal op verzoek van Dion, zwager van Dionysios I. Deze drie reizen liepen uit op een fiasco en de eerste reis eindigde zelfs met een ernstige bedreiging van Plato’s leven.
	www.arsfloreat.nl /uit-plato-deel-1.html (3555 words)

	Archaeological Sites
		Scanty remnants of the ancient city are a door flanked by two watch-towers, a house with peristyle, rooms and various floor mosaics.
		After a period of great prosperity under Syracuse, it was razed by the Romans in 258 BC.
		According to historical sources the city was founded around 649-648 BC and was long disputed by Carthage and Syracuse, the latter eventually winning led by Tyrant Hielon II.
	www.ragusaonline.com /english/articles/archaeological%20sites.htm (4039 words)

	Sources of possible origins of the Atlantis myth from the Helike disaster
		In 388 BC, he had visited the court of Dionysios I of Syracuse, where he managed to offend the tyrant.
		Dionysios heard about it and regarded the fate of Pollis as a portent from the god.
		Fearing for his own safety, Dionysios wrote to Plato, asking the philosopher not to speak evil of him.
	www.helike.org /atlantis.shtml (293 words)

	Messina
		These Oscans were stationed mainly in Syracuse, and became a problem after the fighting ended.
		Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse, then attacked the city itself, and the Mamertines called on both the Carthaginians and their Latin kinsmen, the Romans.
		Rebuilt by Dionysios of Syracuse; Liberated by Timoleon.
	www.ancientroute.com /cities/messina.htm (1805 words)

	Sicily, Syracuse - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com
		Syracuse, Sicily, Rule of Pyrrhos, 278-276 BC, bronze of 22.2 mm, 10.25 grams.
		Syracuse, Sicily, AR Tetradrachm, contemporary imitation, possibly of Punic Sicily, c.
		Sicily, Syracuse, Hieron II, 275-215 BC, AE 26.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/sicily/syracuse/i.html (5618 words)

	DBM naval expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the siege of Syracuse, the Athenian fleet was allowed to fall into severe neglect, and after the losses of 413 BC Athenian rowers no longer had quite the same elan and training.
		Dionysios of Syracuse encouraged and assisted the Illyrians to attack Epeiros, hence the ally option in 385 BC.
		The cordon of hulks and boats is that used to pen the Athenians into the narrow waters of Syracuse harbour during the final stages of the siege in 413 BC.
	tetrad.stanford.edu /newfiles/DBMnavalexpansion.html (8285 words)

	Classics Log 9803a - Message Number 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the great armament of Syracuse, conducted by Dionysios I, c.399 BC, Diodoros states that the catapult was in fact invented at that time (Diod.
		These weapons were put to good use at the Battle of Motye by Dionysios in 397, when fighting the Carthaginians (Diod.
		I have a feeling Onomarchos of Phokis may have used catapults to inflict on Philip II of Makedon his only defeat, in Thessaly, in 353 BC, but I am not sure of the reference.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log98/9803a/9803a.59.html (218 words)

	The Mask of Apollo
		Dionysios I - 430-367, tyrant of Syracuse (405), won first prize at Lenaea (Athens) with a tragedy
		Dionysios II - tyrant (367-56 and 347-4, fled to Locris, Corinth schoolteacher
		Syracuse; banished 356, recalled by Dionysios II, fleet commander
	www.wwu.edu /~stephan/Renault/mask.html (240 words)

	Southern Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A port in southern Sicily, notable as the birthplace of philosopher Empedocles.
		Destroyed by Carthage, then rebuilt by Dionysios I of Syracuse c.
		This region was a warren of petty, and not so petty, states during the Dark Ages and early Middle Ages: see Apulia, Benevento, Capua, and Salerno for examples.
	www.hostkingdom.net /soitaly.html (1569 words)

	Taormina, at about 200m above sea level, resembles a huge balcony, in its shape, that offers a dramatic view of the ...
		The city was founded by a group of refugees from the close Naxos, one of the earliest Greek colonies in Sicily, conquested by Dionysios I, tyrant of Syracuse, in 396 BC.
		Greeks gave the city their typical architectural design, with the agorà, the acropolis in the Tauro Mount, the Bouleuterion and the seat of the city counsil.
		Upon the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, and the decline of Syracuse, it became the capital of the Eastern Sicily.
	www.ragusaonline.com /english/articles/taormina.htm (1652 words)

	Midnight Muse: Books: Mary Renault
		Several important historical figures are brought to vivid life in the novel, including Socrates, Alcibiades, Xenophon, Agathon, Phaedo, and Plato.
		The life of Nikeratos, a fictional Greek actor in the 4th century BCE, whose fortunes rise and fall with the transition of power from the Sicilian tyrant Dionysios I to his son Dionysios II, whom Plato attempted to influence as a philosopher-king.
		The life of Alexander the Great from early childhood until his ascension to the throne upon the assassination of his father Philip of Macedon.
	www.midnight-muse.com /3renault.htm (315 words)

	ORD-HIST-FORWARD.page
		For instance, the ordnance department, a group charged with improving weapons and devising new ones, was invented as early as 400 B. C., but failed to become an established institution until modern times.
		At that time Dionysios, the dictator of Syracuse, was planning to attack the Carthaginian colonies in Sicily.
		He therefore hired philosophers and skilled artisans at high wages, entertained them with wine, women, and song, and told them to devise something to beat the Carthaginians, or else.
	www.eugeneleeslover.com /USNAVY/ORD-HIST-FORWARD.html (3225 words)

	HIST407 Augustus & Hitler: Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you choose this option, please discuss your choice with me. Note that there is no lack of "historical" candidates.
		Stalin, Mussolini, Napoleon I and III, Oliver Cromwell, Julius Caesar, Pisistratus (Athens), Dionysios (Syracuse).
		You may prefer to focus on an aspect of the examples before us.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /%7Eklio/aug%26hitler/paper05.htm (261 words)

	Ancient Greek Artillery Technology: From Catapults to the Architronio Canon
		Plutarch tells us that it was Hiero, another king of Syracuse, who spurred Archimedes into military engineering.
		His splendid catapults kept the Roman troops at bay until the besieged city fell in 212 B.C. as a result of treachery.
		The catapult development started in Sicily with the Greek tyrant Dionysios I providing the financial means required for the experiments that were necessary to find the optimal design.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/war/CatapultTypes.htm (2286 words)

	Follow-up discussion on the Khotan Bow
		Since the late 1800s, people in the West have been interested in constructing composite bows and now we have Internet forums like this on the subject.
		In the past on the steppe and among its neighbours, bows were important military weapons, but there was little thought of research and development (Dionysios of Syracuse was an exception in the West).
		The ad hoc testing method was flight shooting which is very old, but that soon turned into a sport.
	www.atarn.org /letters/khotan_bow/khotan_discuss.htm (3343 words)

	Lipari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aliado con Syracuse a la hora de la intervención profética de Atenas en el oeste de en 427 A.C., Lipara soportó el asalto atenienses y sus aliados.
		Las fuerzas cartaginesas tuvieron éxito en sujetar el sitio brevemente durante sus luchas con Dionysios I, tyrant de Syracuse, en 394, pero una vez que fueran idos los polis incorporaron una alianza de tres vías que incluyó a nueva colonia de Dionysios en Tyndaris.
		Lipara prosperó, pero en 304 Agathokles tomó la ciudad por la traición y se dice haber perdido pillaje de él en una tormenta en el mar. Muchos objetos recuperados de ruinas de la antigüedad ahora están en el museo eólico en Lipari.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/li/Lipari.htm (591 words)

	Re: policing is not war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In classical Greek times tyrannos was applied to anyone who ruled a city-state in the manner of an absolute ruler.
		The classic example was Dionysios of Syracuse, who took power by winning an election, and put down an attempt at a military coup-d'etat that sought to overthrow him illegally, but whose actions were not limited by any constitution.
		In fact, tyrannos was used as a complimentary term in poetic addresses to kings to underscore how great and powerful, and therefore worthy of praise, they were.
	www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/soc.religion.quaker/messages/99370.html (1132 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: Dionysios I. von Syrakus - Hauptseminararbeit. Seminararbeiten, Diplomarbeiten, Magisterarbeiten, ...
		Für die Griechen war das Reich des Dionysios das Werk eines Tyrannen, eines Gewaltherrschers, den vor allen anderen Dingen der Drang zur Macht charakterisierte und der sich über die Grundsätze des politischen Lebens eines freien Gemeinwesens willkürlich und rücksichtslos hinwegsetzte.
		Daneben steht die negative Bewertung des Dionysios und seiner Herrschaft in den Quellen und seine Instrumentalisierung zur Schaffung eines typischen Tyrannenbildes.
		Siehe dazu: Sanders, L.J.: Dionysios I of Syracuse and Greek Tyranny, London/New York/Sidney 1987, S. Stroheker verweist auf den reichen Anekdotenschatz, der die Typisierung des Dionysios als grausamen, paranoiden und rücksichtslosen Gewaltmenschen zum Gegenstand hat und bei Autoren wie Plutarch, Cicero, Valerius Maximus oder Polyaenos überliefert ist.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/2194.html (936 words)

	De Donkere Kamer van Damokles
		Een motief voor het achterhalen van de waarheid en het bewijzen van iemands onschuld is het voortdurend op zoek zijn naar bewijsmateriaal, door zowel Osewoudt als de politie.
		Titel: volgens de Griekse mythologie was Damokles een hoveling van Dionysios de Oude, tiran van Syracuse, die de vorst om zijn macht en rijkdom benijdde.
		Deze omringde hem toen met alle weelde van de heerser, maar met een zwaard aan een paardenhaar boven zijn hoofd, als teken van de voortdurende gevaren die aan de macht kleven (‘het zwaard van Damokles’).
	www.xs4all.nl /~wjsn/tekst/damokles.htm (2211 words)

	Henna Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		552 BC Henna allied with Syracuse, helped Syracuse to control the rebellion of Kamarina (source Philistus).
		396 BC Henna conquered by Dionysios of Syracuse (by treason).
		309 BC Henna allied with Gela against Agathocles of Syracuse.
	www.bio.vu.nl /home/vwielink/WWW_MGC/Area_VII_map/Henna_map/InfoHenna.html (161 words)

	Buy: (DD-G 31) Greek Coin of Artemis of Syracuse COPY (WC) 1MCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		This is a reproduction of a Greek tetradram of Syracuse.
	coin.ioffer.com /i/1MCK03klkx (263 words)

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		SEVERIN Uh, I don't think so -- WANDA One of his courtiers devised for Dionysios, the Tyrant of Syracuse, a huge metal bull, hollow inside.
		The idea was, that to torture and kill his enemies, Dionysios could have them put into the bull, then have a blazing fire built underneath.
		The victims's screams, as he was being roasted to death, would come out of the mouth of the bull, sounding like a bellow.
	www.writesafe.com /storage3/sbks2.txt (12315 words)

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