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DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS (" of See also:Halicarnassus ") , See also:Greek historian and teacher of See also:rhetoric, flourished during the reign of See also:Augustus. He went to See also:Rome after the termination of the See also:civil See also:wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin See also:language and literature and preparing materials for his See also:history. During this See also:period he gave lessons in rhetoric, and enjoyed the society of many distinguished men. The date of his See also:death is unknown. His See also:great See also:work, entitled `PmµaIKil apXawXoyia (See also:Roman Antiquities), embraced the history of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the first Punic See also:War. It was divided into twenty books,—of which the first nine remain entire, the tenth and See also:eleventh are nearly See also:complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus and an See also:epitome discovered by Angelo See also:Mai in a See also:Milan MS. The first three books of See also:Appian, and See also:Plutarch's See also:Life of See also:Camillus also embody much of Dionysius. His See also:chief See also:object was to reconcile the Greeks to the See also:rule of Rome, by dilating upon the See also:good qualities of their conquerors. According to him, history is See also:philosophy teaching by examples, and this See also: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 See also:Livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of See also:early Roman history. Dionysius was also the author of several rhetorical See also:treatises, in which he shows that he has thoroughly studied the best See also:Attic See also:models:—The See also: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 (IIEpt avvBEaews Lvoµarwv), treating of the See also:combination of words according to the different styles of See also:oratory; On See also:Imitation (IIEpi Atpejaeses), 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 (IIEpi Twv apxaiwv prlrbpwv inro,uvrlµaruagoi), which, however, only See also:deal with See also:Lysias, See also:Isaeus, Isocrates and (by way of supplement) See also:Dinarchus; On the admirable See also:Style of See also:Demosthenes (IIEpi Tfjs XEKTUCTJS tlri,uoaNeovs OeLvbTriros); and On the See also:Character of See also:Thucydides (IIEpi Too eo See also:wai.3ov xapaKefiFos), a detailed but on the whole an unfair estimate. These two treatises are supplemented by letters to Cn.

Pompeius and Ammaeus (two). Complete edition by J. J. See also:

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. See also:translation by E.See also:Spelman (1758). A full bibliography of the rhetorical See also:works is given in W. Rhys See also:Roberts's edition of the Three See also:Literary Letters (1901) ; the same author published an edition of the De See also:corn positione verborum (1910, with trans.) ; see also M. See also:Egger, Denys d'Halicarnasse (1902), a very useful See also:treatise. On the See also:sources of Dionysius see O. Bocksch, " De fontibus See also:Dion.

Halicarnassensis " in Leipziger Studien, xvii. (1895). Cf. also J. E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. i. (1906).

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