Dionysius of Halicarnassus

noun

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

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

noun

1. 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.

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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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