S8 Ep264: THE BANISHMENT OF DION Colleague Professor James Romm. Plato returned to Syracuse to tutor Dionysius the Younger, hoping to create an enlightened monarch, but found a court defined by drunkenness and immaturity. The experiment failed when Dion, Plato's al
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4TH CENTURY BCE SYRACUSE
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| 0:38.2 | Professor James Rom. |
| 0:39.7 | Plato and the Tyrant, the fall of Greece's greatest dynasty |
| 0:42.3 | and the making of a philosophic masterpiece. |
| 0:44.8 | The setting is Syracuse. |
| 0:46.5 | The first visit by Plato to Dionysius the Elder |
| 0:50.6 | and the Syracusan tables, |
| 0:53.3 | Plato has the same reaction the Puritans had towards Charles I, |
| 0:56.9 | and that didn't end happily. In this instance, however, Plato leaves, and Dionysius the Elder, |
| 1:04.9 | the Tyro, the man who rose up and became master of his world, dies in 367, and Plato is invited back |
| 1:14.6 | because the throne, well, the metaphor of leader, |
| 1:19.6 | is inherited by Dionysius the younger, |
| 1:23.5 | who is the son of the other wife from the marriage, not Dion's sister. |
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