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name: "Dionysius I of Syracuse"
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description: "He turned Syracuse into the most powerful Greek city in the west through conquest and ruthless calculation — and the ancients remembered him as the textbook tyrant: cruel, suspicious, vindictive."
tagline: "Greek tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 – 367 BC)"
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country:
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birthDate: "-430"
deathDate: "-367"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Dionysius seized power in Syracuse around 432 BC and spent the next decades bending Sicily and southern Italy to his will. He conquered city after city, blocked Carthage's expansion across the island, and built Syracuse into a force that overshadowed every other western Greek colony. The grip never loosened. Ancient writers painted him as the archetype of despotism — a ruler whose suspicion and cruelty defined the role. He died in 367 BC, leaving behind a empire and a reputation that became shorthand for tyranny.