Dionysius I (in greek Διονύσιος), called the Elder, also known as Dionysius (430 BC - 367 BC) was a tyrant of Syracuse. Because of its strategic vision, foresight and power accumulated became the most famous of the Greek tyrants, indeed, "the" tyrant, a prototype of absolute power as opposed to democracy in classical antiquity. As tyrant Dionysius soon became famous for his cruelty and ruthlessness with which he treated his opponents. Plutarch tells us that one of the companions of Plato, Aristide of Locri, the tyrant asked to marry one of his daughters. But he angrily replied that he would rather see her dead than married to a tyrant. Then after that Dionysius he ordered the killing of the children returned to him the same question, and he said he was sorry for the death of children, but that he had not changed his opinion. [4]
According to the reconstructions of Claudius Aelian Dionisio would shut up in the cavity today called ear of Dionysius the poet Philoxenus, guilty of failing to appreciate the literary works of the tyrant.
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