Dionysius' son Dionysius the Younger sees a…

357 BCE to 346 BCE

Dionysius' son Dionysius the Younger sees a decade of peace before his autocracy is challenged by his exiled uncle, Dion, who in 357 assembles a force of fifteen hundred mercenaries at Zacynthus and sails to Sicily, where, in a brief, bloody civil war, he drives Dionysius from his kingdom and is received with demonstrations of joy.

His deposed kinsman flees to Locri.

After a short period of rule in Syracuse, Dion is again banished and again recalled.

After an Athenian assassinates him in 354, a period of civil war follows.

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Syracuse > Siracusa Sicilia Italy View →

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Dion View → Dionysius II of Syracuse View →

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Greece, classical View → Sicily, classical View → Italy, classical View → Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of View → Athens, City-State of View →

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Iron Age Europe View → Iron Age Cold Epoch View → Classical antiquity View →

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