Dinomen the Younger

Dinomen ( dr. Greek Δεινομένης ; after 484–451 BC?) Is the tyrant of Etna in Sicily from the genus Dinomenides .

The only son from the marriage of the tyrant Hieron I with the daughter of the Syracusan Nikocles ^[1] . The marriage was concluded about 485 BC. e., therefore, Dinomen could be born no earlier than the year 484 BC. e. In 476 BC e. Hieron founded a new policy on the site of Katana - Etna, and appointed her son as its tyrant-governor ^[2] . In fact, the city was ruled by the teacher of Dinomen Chromy of Etna ^[3] .

According to Helmut Bervay , Dinomen, according to the plan of Hieron, was to become not a tyrant, but the legitimate king of the polis, whose powers corresponded to Doric customs. The German historian sees evidence of this in the First Pythian ode of Pindar , glorifying the founding of a new city ^[4] .

After the death of Hieron, Dinomen made for him in 467/466 BC. e. an offering to Olympia , on the occasion of the victory of his team at the games in 468 BC. e. ^[5] . The bronze chariot, the work of Onatus from Aegina, stood next to the statue of Theagen , a dedication inscription quoted by Pausanias :

Dinomen survived the fall of the tyranny of his uncle Thrasibulus in Syracuse in 466/465 BC. e., and reigned in Etna until 461 BC. e., when the combined forces of the Syracusans and the leader of the Sikuls of Duketi expelled the colonists of Hieron from there ^{[6] [7] [8]} . The policy was transferred to Inessa, where Dinomen, apparently, ruled for another ten years ^[8] .

In 451 BC e. Ducetius captured Etna Inessa, and the ruler of the city, whom Diodorus of Sicily called the "hegemon" (τον ήγούμενον), was killed by his order ^{[9] [10]} .

It is assumed that Dinomen also inherited his father in the rank of the high priest Zeus of Ethno ^[10] .