Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Wikipedia

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀλικαρνᾱσσεύς, Dionysios son of Aléxandros, of Halikarnassós, c. 60 BC–after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Life He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin ...

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Dionysius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Halicarnassensis or Halicarnasseus, an historian and critic, born at Halicarnassus in the first century B.C. We know nothing of his history beyond what he has told us himself. He states that he came to Italy at the termination of the civil war between Augustus and Antony (B.C. 29), and that he spent the following two-and-twenty years at Rome in lea...

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