Dionysius Halicarnassensis ("of Halicarnassus"), Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, flourished during the reign of Augustus. Map of the Aegean Sea, showing the location of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque and advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf or Gulf of Cos. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). ... Augustus (plural Augusti) is Latin for majestic or venerable. Although the use of the cognomen Augustus as part of ones name is generally understood to identify the Emperor Augustus, this is somewhat misleading; Augustus was the most significant name associated with the Emperor, but it did not actually represent...

He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and literature and preparing materials for his history. During this period he gave lessons in rhetoric, and enjoyed the society of many distinguished men. The date of his death is unknown. His great work, entitled Ρωμαικης Αρχαιολογιας (Rhomaikes Archaiologias, Roman Antiquities), embraced the history of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the First Punic War. Location within Italy The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of its Latium region. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). ... History -- Military History -- War The First Punic War was fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 264 BC to 241 BC. It was the first of three major wars between these two ancient world super powers for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea and control of Sicily. ...

It was divided into twenty books, of which the first nine remain entire, the tenth and eleventh are nearly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos (the Purple-born) ( 905 – November 9, 959) was the son of Byzantine emperor Leo VI and nephew of Alexander III. He earned his nickname as the legitimate (or more accurately legitimized) son of Leo, as opposed to the others who claimed the throne during his lifetime. ... Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782 - September 8, 1854), Italian cardinal and philologist, was born of humble parents at Schilpario in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. ... Appian (Gr. ... Mestrius Plutarch (c. ...

His chief object was to reconcile the Greeks to the rule of Rome, by dilating upon the good qualities of their conquerors. According to him, history is philosophy teaching by examples, and this idea he has carried out from the point of view of the Greek rhetorician. But he has carefully consulted the best authorities, and his work and that of Livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of early Roman history. Roman Empire between AD 60 and 400 with major cities. ... Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC). ...

Dionysius was also the author of several rhetorical treatises, in which he shows that he has thoroughly studied the best Attic models: The Art of Rhetoric (which is rather a collection of essays on the theory of rhetoric), incomplete, and certainly not all his work; The Arrangement of Words (Περι [avvO~rews àvouàrwv]), treating of the combination of words according to the different styles of oratory; On Imitation (Περι Μιμησεως, Peri Mimeseos), on the best models in the different kinds of literature and the way in which they are to be imitated — a fragmentary work; Commentaries on the Attic Orators (Περι Των αρχαιων Ρητορων &,rouvnuarfffuoi]), which, however, only deal with Lysias, Isaeus, Isocrates and (by way of supplement) Dinarchus; On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes (Περι [r1~js XeXTIKijI i~puoofl~vovs ôeLvbTflTos]); and On the Character of Thucydides (Περι Θουκιδιδου χαρακτηρος), a detailed but on the whole an unfair estimate. These two treatises are supplemented by letters to Gn. Pompeius and Ammaeus (two). Lysias, Attic orator, was born, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, in 459 BC. This date was evidently obtained by reckoning back from the foundation of Thurii (444 BC), since there was a tradition that Lysias had gone thither at the age... Isaeus (fl. ... Isocrates (436–338 BC), Greek rhetorician. ... Dinarchus, (c. ... For the Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, see Demosthenes (general). ... This article refers to the Roman General. ...

Complete edition by JJ Reiske (1774‑1777); of the Archaeologia by A. Kiessling and V. Prou (1886) and C. Jacoby (1885‑1891); Opuscula by Usener and Radermacher (1899); Eng. translation by E. Spelman (1758). A full bibliography of the rhetorical works is given in W. Rhys Roberts's edition of the Three Literary Letters (1901); the same author published an edition of the De compositione verborum (1910, with trans.); see also M. Egger, Denys d'Halicarnasse (1902), a very useful treatise. On the sources of Dionysius see O Bocksch, "De fontibus Dion. Halicarnassensis" in Leipziger Studien, xvii. (1895). Cf. also J. E. Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. i. (1906).

He is often cited as Dion. Halic. in print publications.

External link

• English translation of the Antiquities (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/home.html) (at LacusCurtius)

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