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Dionysius of Heraclea

4th-century BC tyrant of Heraclea Pontica · Lived 360 BC to 305 BC · aged 55

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Dionysius was a tyrant of Heraclea Pontica on the Euxine. He was a son of Clearchus, who had assumed the tyranny in his place of birth.

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The extent of Herakleote control over Thynia (eastern Bithynia) follows Niese (Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten seit der Schlacht bei Chaeronea, Gotha, 1893-1903, vol. 3) and Burstein (Greece's Northern Frontier: Studies in the History of the Ancient Greek Experience in the Black Sea, 2024) in interpreting Apollonius of Rhodes 2.788-789, a passage which may be derived from the local historian Nymphis, as indicating that Herakleia held the whole of Thynia up to the mouth of the Rhebas, not merely the island of Thynias. This reading contrasts with Ed. Meyer (1897: 'Bithynia'. Realencyclopädie 3.1, 512.) and Davaze (Memnon, historien d'Héraclée du Pont: commentaire historique, Le Mans Université, 2013), who identified "tēn Thunida gēn" (Memnon, FGrH 3B, 434 F9.4) with the island of Thynias alone. The broader interpretation is partially corroborated by archaeological evidence indicating that the walls of the Herakleote colony on Thynias were constructed from stone quarried on the opposite mainland (Fıratlı 1953, 16), suggesting a sustained Herakleote presence and control across both the island and the adjacent Bithynian coastline.The extent of Herakleote control over Thynia (eastern Bithynia) follows Niese (Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten seit der Schlacht bei Chaeronea, Gotha, 1893-1903, vol. 3) and Burstein (Greece's Northern Frontier: Studies in the History of the Ancient Greek Experience in the Black Sea, 2024) in interpreting Apollonius of Rhodes 2.788-789, a passage which may be derived from the local historian Nymphis, as indicating that Herakleia held the whole of Thynia up to the mouth of the Rhebas, not merely the island of Thynias. This reading contrasts with Ed. Meyer (1897: 'Bithynia'. Realencyclopädie 3.1, 512.) and Davaze (Memnon, historien d'Héraclée du Pont: commentaire historique, Le Mans Université, 2013), who identified "tēn Thunida gēn" (Memnon, FGrH 3B, 434 F9.4) with the island of Thynias alone. The broader interpretation is partially corroborated by archaeological evidence indicating that the walls of the Herakleote colony on Thynias were constructed from stone quarried on the opposite mainland (Fıratlı 1953, 16), suggesting a sustained Herakleote presence and control across both the island and the adjacent Bithynian coastline.

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Lived 360 BC to 305 BC · aged 55

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