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PHILISTUS , See also:

Greek historian of See also:Sicily, was See also:born at See also:Syracuse about the beginning of the Peloponnesian See also:War (432 B.C.). He was a faithful supporter of 'the See also:elder See also:Dionysius, and See also:commander 6 See R. A. S. Macalister, Quarterly Slat. of the See also:Palestine Explor. Fund, pp. 319 sqq. (1905), pp. 197 sqq. (1907), and J. L. Myres, ibid. pp.

240 sqq. (1907). On the other See also:

hand, H. See also:Thiersch would connect the painted pottery of Tel es-Safi, &c., with the See also:Philistines (Jahrbuch d. See also:Arch. Inst. See also:col. 378 sqq., See also:Berlin, 1908) ; cf. also H. R. See also:Hall, Prot.. See also:Soc. Bibl. Arch. xxxi.

235. 6 v. 13 seq. may be a secondary addition " written from specially intimate acquaintance with the (later ?) See also:

Egyptian See also:geography (J. See also:Skinner, See also:Genesis, p. 214). ' See D. G. See also:Hogarth, See also:Ionia and the See also:East, pp. 28 seq. (See also:Oxford, 1909) ; See also:Evans, Scripta Minoa, pp. 77 sqq. of the citadel.

In 386 he excited the See also:

jealousy of the See also:tyrant by secretly marrying his niece, and was sent into banishment. He settled at See also:Thurii, but afterwards removed to See also:Adria, where he remained until the See also:death of Dionysius (366). He was then recalled by the younger Dionysius, whom he persuaded to dismiss See also:Plato and See also:Dion. When Dion set See also:sail from Zacynthus with the See also:object of liberating Syracuse from the tyrannis, Philistus was entrusted with the command of the See also:fleet, but he was defeated and put to death (356). During his stay at Adria, Philistus occupied himself with the See also:composition of his ILKe?iK6., a See also:history of Sicily in eleven books. The first See also:part (bks. i.-vii.) comprised the history of the See also:island from the earliest times to the See also:capture of See also:Agrigentum by the Carthaginians (406); the second, the history of the elder and the younger Dionysius (down to 363). From this point the See also:work was carried on by Philistus's See also:fellow countryman Athanas. See also:Cicero (ad. Q. Fr. ii. 13), who had a high See also:opinion of his work, calls him the See also:miniature See also:Thucydides " (pusillus Thucydides). He was admitted by the Alexandrian critics into the See also:canon of historiographers, and his work was highly valued by See also:Alexander the See also:Great.

See Diod. Sic. xiii. 103, xiv. 8, xv. 7, xVi. '6; See also:

Plutarch, Dion, 11–36; Cicero, See also:Brutus, 17, De oratore, ii. 13; See also:Quintilian, Instil. x. 1, 74; fragments and See also:life in C. W. See also:Muller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. i. (1841) ; C. See also:Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der See also:alten Geschichte (1895); E.

A. See also:

Freeman, History of Sicily (189'-1894) ; A. Holm, Geschichte Siciliens See also:im Allert. (187o-1898).

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