The assassination of Dion
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the murder of Dion · Dion's death
in the texts
Letters
Dion's former Athenian companions betray him and assist in his murder after he is slanderously charged with seeking the tyranny for himself.
And the murderer of Dion is not aware that he has brought about the same result as Dionysius.
But on their arrival in Sicily, when they perceived that Dion was slanderously charged before the Siceliots whom he had set free with plotting to become tyrant, they not only betrayed their companion and host but became themselves, so to say, the authors of his murder, since they stood beside the murderers, ready to assist, with arms in their hands.
Dion
The organized killing of Dion by conspirators under Callippus, carried out by hired Zacynthian assassins inside his own house.
After some delay, Lycon the Syracusan handed through the window to one of the Zacynthians a shortsword, and with this they cut Dion’s throat as if he had been a victim at the altar;
Many had conspired to do the deed, and as Dion was sitting with his friends in an apartment containing couches for entertainment, some of the conspirators invested the house outside, while others stood at the doors and windows of the apartment.
The actual assassins, who were Zacynthians, came in unarmed and without their cloaks.