Syracuse, despite the mandatory payments to Carthage,…

Syracuse, despite the mandatory payments to Carthage, prospers during the long reign of Dionysius, a patron of the arts who has erected many buildings and has made his fleet the most powerful in the Mediterranean.

His troops, in support of Sparta, continue in the early 360s BCE to operate against Thebes.

Dionysius launches a fourth war against Carthage, scoring victories until …