 After Dionysios confiscates Dion's estates and gives his wife to another man, Dion returns with an army and captures most of Syracuse while Dionysios' loyalists hold out in the island citadel of Ortygia.In the ensuing fighting Syracuse is brutally ravaged before Dion gains the upper hand.Philistos is killed by the vengeful citizenry and Dionysios flees to live out his remaining years in exile.