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Tyrant of Syracuse from who, by his conquests in Sicily and southern Italy, made Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece. Although he saved Greek Sicily from conquest by Carthage, his brutal military despotism harmed the cause of Hellenism.

After working as a clerk in a public office, Dionysius distinguished himself fighting in the war with Carthage that broke out in Sicily in He took advantage of a crisis in the war to make himself tyrant in Over the next eight years he ruthlessly consolidated and expanded his power.

He built a wall around Syracuse and fortified Epipolae.

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The Greek citizens of Naxos, Catana, and Leontini were removed from their cities; many of them were enslaved and their homes were given to Sicilian and Italian mercenaries.

Dionysius was then ready to lead his vast army against Carthage, which had occupied western and southern Sicily.

His first war with Carthage (�), during which the Greeks besieged Motya and the Carthaginians Syracuse,