Philoxenus of Cythera
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Philoxenus of Cythera was a Greek dithyrambic poet, an exponent of the "New Music". He was one of the most important dithyrambic poets of ancient Greece.
Detail of a 1st-century BC wall painting from a bedroom in the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase showing a landscape with Galatea and Polyphemus with some of his flock
Dionysius I of Syracuse
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Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily. He conquered several cities on Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence on Sicily and made Syracuse the most p
Philoxenus of Cythera
…where he came into the possession of the dithyrambic poet Melanippides, who educated him. Philoxenus lived for some time in Sicily, as the court-poet of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. There, according to Athenaeus—probably based on an account by the 4th-century philosopher Phaenias of Eresus—Philoxenus tried to seduce Dionysius…
Portrait from Chronologisch geordneter Bildniss-Saal (1833) by Mark Karl Baldamus
Kingdom of Dionysius, 367 BC