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The best philosopher who ever before resided. A dissolute tyrant looking for an education. What may fail? Plato was the most fantastic thinker of his age. Head of the Academy in Athens, friend of the greatest thoughts of his technology, his idea was famous across the Greek world. But would he ever before get the chance to try his ideas out? Dionysius the Younger was Tyrant of Syracuse, feckless boy of any famous dad. His guideline ran from Sicily to the Adriatic, but he had time limited to debauchery and dancing girls. The historic metropolitan areas of Sicily were in ruins, destroyed by the growing ability of Carthage. His father's empire was sliding away. His austere, disciplined uncle Dion, Plato's most cherished pupil and the energy behind the throne, was at despair. So was created the imagine making a real philosopher-king by taking an unworthy young man with absolute ability and shaping him into a model of intelligence, integrity, and benevolence. Within the last technology of Greek independence, Plato's doomed journeys to Syracuse were an attempt to carefully turn thoughts into actions, to make a philosophical ideal into a politics reality. But idea could be a dangerous business.
