DIONYSIUS

The Graeco-Roman name 'Dionysius', deriving from the name of the Thracian god Dionysus, was exceedingly common, and many ancient people, famous and otherwise, bore it. It remains a common name today in the form ''Dennis'' (''Denys'', ''Denis'', ''Denise'').
Among the persons known by the name Dionysius, some of the more famous were:

★ Dionysius the Elder (or Dionysius I), ruler of Syracuse in Sicily

★ Dionysius the Younger, (or Dionysius II), son of the preceding

★ Dionysius of Phocaea, commander of the Ionian fleet at the Battle of Lade, 494 BC

★ Dionysius Chalcus, Athenian elegiac poet, 5th century BC

★ Dionysius of Heraclea, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica, 4th century BC

★ Dionysius Periegetes, Greek geographer, 3rd century BC

★ Dionysius (ambassador), 3rd century BC, ambassador to the court of the Indian ruler Ashoka.

★ Dionysius Thrax, Greek grammarian, 2nd century BC

★ Dionysius, a lector and martyr of Alexandria - see Faustus, Abibus, and Dionysius of Alexandria

★ Dionysius the Areopagite, Athenian judge who was converted by Paul of Tarsus and became Bishop of Athens

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★ Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5th century), name given to anonymous writer, identified by some with Georgian theologian Peter the Iberian (411–491), author of ''Corpus Areopagiticum''

★ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greek historian of the Roman period

★ Saint Dionysius of Alexandria, 3rd century Egyptian bishop

★ Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos, 15th century Orthodox Christian Archbishop of Aegina

★ Saint Denis, Bishop of Paris, martyr (died ca. 250)

★ Pope Dionysius (259–268)

★ Dionysius of Alba, 4th-century bishop.

★ Dionysius Exiguus, (c. 470–c. 540) Dacian monk who invented the Anno Domini era

★ Dionysius Telmaharensis, (d. 848) former head of the Syrian Jacobite Church

★ Jacob Bar-Salibi also known as Dionysius Bar-salibi, member of Syrian Jacobite Church in the 12th century, best known for his commentary on biblical texts

★ Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow (c. 1300–1385), 14th century orthodox prelate

★ Dionysius the Wise, (late 15th century–early 16th century), Russian medieval icon-painter

★ Denis the Carthusian (1402-1471)

★ Dionysius the Philosopher, (1560 AD–1611 AD), Epirotian Greek monk who led two farmer revolts against the Ottoman Turks.

★ Benjamin Musaphia (1606–1675), Jewish doctor, scholar, and kabbalist, who sometimes called himself Dionysius

★ Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859), Irish scientific writer

★ Dionysios Demetis, musician

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★ Dionysos (disambiguation)

★ Dionisius