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Dion 409-353BC
Syracusan magnate

He was both brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius the Elder. This connection with the tyrant brought him great wealth, but he fell out with Dionysius the Younger, who banished him in 366BC. Thereupon he retired to Athens to study philosophy under Plato. A sudden attack upon Syracuse made him master of the city in 357, but his severity alienated the Syracusans, and he was murdered.