PREVIEW ASSASSINATION: Professor James Romm, author, "Plato and the Tyrant," comments on the outbreak of political violence that Plato witnessed in Syracuse, committed by the tyrant he came to follow closely. More.
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| 1:00.9 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with Professor James Rom, Plato and the Tyrant, |
| 1:07.9 | in turning on Dion, the brother-in-law of the tyrants, that would be Dionysius 1 and |
| 1:15.1 | Dionysius 2, double brother-in-law in one instance, they married several women in all directions, |
| 1:21.9 | including sisters. However, Dionne Dionne returns to the island after having been exiled with an invasion fleet |
| 1:29.8 | to drive out the tyrants, or at least to neutralize them, and win back the hearts and |
| 1:36.0 | minds of the Syracusans. This is a very powerful state pulling itself apart with family |
| 1:40.8 | feuding. However, once Dion is, Dion, is established again, he leans towards being a |
| 1:49.5 | dictator himself, a tyrant is what they called them, 2,500 years ago. And he leads to making |
| 1:57.8 | decisions about political assassination, qualifying considerably my reading of Dion, |
| 2:05.7 | 2,500 years later, |
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