Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus British  

noun

1. died ?7 _bc , Greek historian and rhetorician; author of a history of Rome

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

Consequently Hermagoras defines the subject matter of rhetoric as "public questions," Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as "communal affairs," and the Ad Herennium as "whatever in customs or laws is to the public benefit."

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark

The dictum of Dionysius of Halicarnassus that "history is philosophy teaching by example" would seem there to have become modified into "history is filiosophy teaching by example."

From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

Thus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions 5000 equites as taking part in a review at which he himself was present.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

Dionysius of Halicarnassus thinks the Roman religion the better of the two, because it rejected the blasphemous myths concerning the loves and quarrels of the heavenly powers.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

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