Dionysius of Halicarnassus
60 BCE – 7 BCE · aged 53
1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
- Born
- 60 BCE · Halicarnassus
- Died
- 7 BCE · Rome
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- 60 BCEBornBorn in Halicarnassus
- 7 BCEDiedDied in Rome
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- 27 BCE – 395 CERoman Empire
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς,
Dionýsios Alexándrou Halikarnasseús, ''Dionysios (son of Alexandros) of Halikarnassos''; c. 60 BC – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary style was atticistic – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime.
He is known for his work Rhōmaikē Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), which describes the history of Rome from its beginnings until the outbreak of the First Punic War in 264 BC. Out of twenty books, only the first nine have survived. Dionysius's opinion of the necessity of a promotion of paideia within education, from true knowledge of classical sources, endured for centuries in a form integral to the identity of the Greek elite.
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