Apollocrates

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Syracuse in antiquity with the offshore island of Ortygia

Apollokrates (* around 375 BC; † 347 BC in Lokroi ) was the eldest son of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II and his wife Sophrosyne, a grandson of the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse. He was 357–355 BC. His father's governor in the contested Ortygia castle , an island off Syracuse; In 355 he had to surrender to his uncle Dion's invasion troops and received free retreat for the surrender of the fortress; he spent the next few years as the future heir at his father's side in Lokroi on the Italian mainland, the hometown of his grandmother Doris, where his father had ruled himself after the expulsion from Syracuse.

347 BC Apollokrates' father Dionysius II returned to Syracuse after a ten-year absence and forcibly brought the city back under his rule. The sources are silent about the fate of the Apollokrates at that time. Possibly he accompanied his father on the campaign to Syracuse, but perhaps he stayed behind with his siblings and his mother Sophrosyne in Lokroi in supposed safety. In this case, like the other members of the tyrant family, he was probably killed by the insurgents in the popular uprising in Lokroi that broke out in the absence of the tyrant.

Dionysius II avenged the murder of his family by razing the rebellious Lokroi to the ground.

When the Corinthian Timoleon in 344 BC When he landed on Sicily with an expeditionary force, Dionysius II gave up tyranny after an unusually short resistance and, to the astonishment of his contemporaries, went into exile as a modest private individual in Corinth .

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  • Plutarch : Dion , chapter 37 and Timoleon , chapter 13

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SURNAME Apollocrates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse
DATE OF BIRTH around 375 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 347 BC Chr.
Place of death Lokroi