Dionysius
Also known as: Argive Dionysius / Dionysius the Argive · Family: Syracuse · Role: ruler · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2
In Book 1, Philoxenus went to Dionysius, who was later tyrant in Sicily. In Book 1, Chapter 13, Philistus is mentioned in connection with concealing Dionysius’s acts while hoping to return to Syracuse.
By Book 5, Chapter 26, works attributed to Argive Dionysius included statues of Agon, Dionysus, Orpheus and Zeus. In Chapter 27, Phormis dedicated two horses and two charioteers at Olympia, including a horse and groom made by Dionysius the Argive. In Book 6, Chapter 2, some Syracusans bribed Clinopater so his son Antipater would be declared a Syracusan; Antipater rejected the bribe and declared himself a Milesian.
Relationship record
Life events
- Phormis dedicated two horses and two charioteers at Olympia.(Book 5 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Olympia)
- Antipater rejected Dionysius’s bribe and declared himself a Milesian.(Book 6 · Chapter 2)
- With: Antipater (Milesian athlete, son of Clinopater) Clinopater
- “But Antipater, despising the tyrant’s bribe, declared himself a Milesian, and inscribed on his effigy that he was a Milesian”
Book 1 · Chapter 2
- protégé: Philoxenus “to Dionysius, who was afterwards tyrant in Sicily, went Philoxenus”
Book 1 · Chapter 13
- with Philistus (interaction) “If Philistus, hoping for a return to Syracuse, was justified in concealing the most flagitious acts of Dionysius”
Book 5 · Chapter 26
- with Agon (Dionysius made the statue of Agon and the other listed works.) “These are works of art of the Argive Dionysius.”
- with Dionysus (Dionysius made the statue of Dionysus.) “And next the statue of Agon is Dionysus, and the Thracian Orpheus, and the statue of Zeus which I mentioned a little above. These are works of art of the Argive Dionysius.”
- with Orpheus (Dionysius made the statue of Orpheus.) “And next the statue of Agon is Dionysus, and the Thracian Orpheus, and the statue of Zeus which I mentioned a little above. These are works of art of the Argive Dionysius.”
- with Zeus (Dionysius made the statue of Zeus.) “And next the statue of Agon is Dionysus, and the Thracian Orpheus, and the statue of Zeus which I mentioned a little above. These are works of art of the Argive Dionysius.”
Book 5 · Chapter 27
- with Phormis (interaction) “The first horse and groom is by Dionysius the Argive”
Book 6 · Chapter 2
- with Antipater (Milesian athlete, son of Clinopater) (Dionysius's supporters attempted to bribe Antipater's father.) “some Syracusans, who offered sacrifices at Olympia on behalf of Dionysius, bribed the father of Antipater to let his son be declared a Syracusan.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.