Apollocrates was the son of Dionysius II of Syracuse

Dionysius II of Syracuse

Dionysius the Younger or Dionysius II ruled Syracuse, Sicily from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC....

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Two years after Dion

Dion of Syracuse

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 and Heraclides

Heraclides

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 conquered Syracuse in 357 BC

357 BC

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, Dion maintained control of the fortress of Ortygia

Ortygia

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. As supplies ran out, Apollocrates capitulated to Dion, who allowed him and his mother Doris

Doris

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 to sail to join his father in Italy.

According to Theopompus

Theopompus

Theopompus was a Greek historian and rhetorician- Biography :Theopompus was born on Chios. In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on account of his Laconian sympathies...

, Book 39, F185: "Apollocrates the son of the tyrant Dionysius was undisciplined and an alcoholic."