Dionysius of Halicarnassus

noun

1. died 7? b.c., Greek rhetorician and historian in Rome.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

noun

1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus?7 bcMGreekHISTORY: historianPHILOSOPHY: rhetorician died ?7 bc , Greek historian and rhetorician; author of a history of Rome

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the first century BC scholar, called Homer the source from which every sea, every fountain, every river flows.

From The Guardian

His life and works, 312 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the creed of the Romans, i.

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Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although Varro seems to have approved of his work.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch, however, favour the authorship of Demosthenes.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus censures him for arranging his history, not according to the natural connexion of events, but according to the locality or the nation he was describing; and undoubtedly he never, like his contemporary Herodotus, rose to the conception of a single current of events wider than the local distinction of race.

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