Editing Dionysius I of Syracuse (section)

==In popular culture and literature==
Dionysius I is one of the central characters in the legend of the [[Damocles|Sword of Damocles]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, On the Nature of the Gods, On the Commonwealth |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14988/14988-h/14988-h.htm#page-184 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>

Dionysius I also appears to be mentioned in [[Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' (of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'') (1308–21) as a tyrant who suffers in a river of boiling blood, although there is some dispute the Dionysius of reference may be his son, Dionysius II.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Singleton |first=Charles S. |title=Charles S. Singleton (1970-75), Inferno 12.107-108 |url=https://dante.dartmouth.edu/search_view.php?doc=197051121071&cmd=gotoresult&arg1=1 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=dante.dartmouth.edu}}</ref>

He features prominently in [[L. Sprague de Camp]]'s [[historical novel]] ''[[The Arrows of Hercules]]'' (1965) as a patron of inventors on the island of [[Ortygia]] near Syracuse. 

A fictional version of Dionysius is a character in [[Mary Renault]]'s historical novel ''[[The Mask of Apollo]]'' (1966). 

He is the main character in [[Valerio Massimo Manfredi]]'s novel ''Tyrant'' (2003).  

"Dionysius the Tyrant" is mentioned in the 2006 [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] novel ''[[Imperium (Harris novel)|Imperium]]'' as the founder of the Stone Quarries of Syracuse. The narrator, [[Marcus Tullius Tiro]], proclaims the Stone Quarries "the most fearsome prison in the world."

He is featured in the 1962 film ''[[Damon and Pythias (1962 film)|Damon and Pythias]]'' (''Il tiranno di Siracusa''). 

He also features in  [[Friedrich Schiller]]'s "[[Die Bürgschaft]]", as well as [[Osamu Dazai]]'s reworked version "[[Run, Melos!]]".