S8 Ep264: THE TYRANT WHO BECAME A SCHOOLTEACHER Colleague Professor James Romm. Professor James Romm discusses the surprising fate of Dionysius II, the tyrant of Syracuse. After the Corinthian leader Timoleon arrived to liberate the city, Dionysius surrendered and
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
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4TH CENTURY BCE SYRACUSE
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| 0:34.7 | I'm John Thatcher with Professor James Rom, and the book is unpredictable, because it's not Shakespeare. |
| 0:40.8 | It doesn't give us a proverb at the end to feel good about, or even King Kong, Beauty Killed the Beast. |
| 0:47.7 | We now follow, remember the teenager who drank too much and caused his uncle, brother-in-law, |
| 1:01.2 | much distress that led to the invasion fleet that is now pulled apart Syracuse is no longer the most powerful state, |
| 1:02.8 | which must have made them smile in Rome and Carthage and Athens. |
| 1:07.0 | Must have. |
| 1:08.1 | I get suspicious sometimes. |
| 1:10.6 | However, Dionysius' second is still on the scene |
| 1:14.4 | or has returned from the mainland. And he's in the island. Is that correct, Professor? He's, |
| 1:22.5 | he and his men are secure in the island. That's right. Until from Corinth, which is the mother city of Syracuse, several hundred years before, |
| 1:34.4 | a man named Tomolian. |
| 1:35.7 | Who is he? |
| 1:38.1 | Demolian was a mature man, a man in his 50s who had lived a private life in Corinth for decades after a |
| 1:49.6 | political episode that had badly tarnished him and forced him out of politics. But when the |
| 1:57.5 | call came from Syracuse to help us here, we need some kind of leadership. |
| 2:04.6 | Tumoleon was appointed to lead a hired army to try to take control of the situation. |
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