During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Commenting on Alcaeus as a political poet, the scholar Dionysius of Halicarnassus once observed that "... if you removed the meter you would find political rhetoric.

Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, and called the year of the first consuls " 245 ab urbe condita ", accepting the 244-year interval from Dionysius of Halicarnassus for the kings after the foundation of Rome.

Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 72. 5 ) cites Xenagoras, the second century BC historian, as claiming that Odysseus and Circe had three sons: Romus, Anteias, and Ardeias, who respectively founded three cities called by their names: Rome, Antium, and Ardea.

In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus stated that the Etruscan language was unlike any other.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus characterized these historians as the forerunners of Thucydides, and these local histories continued to be written into Late Antiquity, as long as the city-states survived.

Yet those who did not appreciate it as model of history could still admire the style of writing — as Dionysius of Halicarnassus praises its sweetness and charm ( De Thuc.

However, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a literary critic of Augustan Rome, listed seven predecessors of Herodotus, describing their works as simple, unadorned accounts of their own and other cities and people, Greek or foreign, including popular legends, sometimes melodramatic and naive, often charming-all traits that can be found in the work of Herodotus himself.

The story, among others, is described by Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1. 48. 2

According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a major source, sets this year " at the beginning of the sixty-eighth Olympiad ... Isagoras being the annual archon at Athens ;" that is, 508 / 507 BC ( the ancient calendars split years over modern ones ).

The traditional account of Roman history, which has come down to us through Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and others, is that in Rome's first centuries it was ruled by a succession of seven kings.

There is a single complete poem, Fragment 1, the Hymn to Aphrodite, quoted in its entirety as a model of the " polished and exuberant " style of composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, with admiration of its consummate artistry:

Above all, her words are chosen for their sheer melody: the skill with which she placed her vowels and consonants, admired by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, is evidenced by almost any stanza ; the music to which she sang them has gone, but the spoken sounds may still enchant.

The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus testifies that the prytaneum of a Greek state or community was sacred to Hestia, who was served by the most powerful state officials.

" This venerable etymology is at least as old as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who said " And there is no reason that the Greeks should not have called them by this name, both from their living in towers and from the name of one of their rulers.

* Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Roman Antiquities at LacusCurtius

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ' imaginative account of Romulus ' triumph ( almost certainly informed by equally nostalgic Roman sources ) led him to reflect that the triumphs of his own day ( Ca 60 BCE – after 7 BCE ) " departed in every respect from the ancient tradition of frugality ".

Other writers, such as Herodotus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Pausanias, and Eutropius, describe them as Greeks.

Eusebius of Caesarea, including the Praeparatio evangelica and the Demonstratio evangelica as well as the Historia ecclesiastica ( 1544-1546 ), Manuel Moschopulus ( 1545 ), Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( February 1547 ), Alexander of Tralles ( January 1548 ), Dio Cassius ( January 1548 ), Justin Martyr ( 1551 ), Xiphilinus ( 1551 ), Appian ( 1551 ), the last being completed, after Robert's departure from Paris, by his brother Charles, and appearing under his name.

He added them to the other existing biographies, despite the fact that the writer speaks of himself as a contemporary and friend of Atticus, and that the manuscript bore the heading E libro posteriore Cornelii Nepotis (' from the last book of Cornelius Nepos ') At last Dionysius Lambinus's edition of 1569 bore a commentary demonstrating on stylistic grounds that the work must have been of Nepos alone, and not Aemilius Probus.

The work is now lost, but from Livy and Dionysius, who both used it, we know that it began with the founding of the city, and that Pyrrhus appeared in book 2.

The principal sources for the story behind David's Oath are the first book of Livy ( sections 24-6 ) which was elaborated by Dionysius in book 3 of his Roman Antiquities.

The table counted the years starting from the presumed birth of Christ, rather than the accession of the emperor Diocletian on 20 November 284, or as stated by Dionysius: " sed magis elegimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare ..." It is assumed Dionysius Exiguus intended either 1 AD or 1 BC to be the year of Christ's birth ( a " year zero " does not exist in this calendar ).

However, most scholars think Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the previous year, 1 BC.

Whether Dionysius regarded " incarnation " as Jesus ' birth or conception, and whether Dionysius placed it in 1 BC or AD 1 are debated by modern scholars.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the incarnation of Jesus in the next year, AD 1.

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* The brother-in-law of Dionysius I, Dion, exiled from Syracuse in 366 BC by Dionysius II, assembles a force of 1, 500 mercenaries at Zacynthus and sails to Sicily.

* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1. 17. 3 ( ca 15 BC )

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 61 – 62 ) states that Dardanus ' original home was in Arcadia where Dardanus and his elder brother Iasus ( elsewhere more commonly called Iasion ) reigned as kings following Atlas.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 50. 3 ), Zacynthus was the first settler on the island afterwards called Zacynthus.

Dionysius says ( 1. 61. 4 ) that Dimas and Idaeus founded colonies in Asia Minor.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 28. 1 ) cites a tradition that the supposed founder of the Etruscan settlements was Tyrrhenus, the son of Heracles by Omphale the Lydian, who drove the Pelasgians out of Italy from the cities north of the Tiber river.

* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, V: 1 – 39

Modern historians regard the chronology as uncertain but, according to the ancient account, these predecessors included for example Dionysius of Miletus, Charon of Lampsacus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Xanthus of Lydia and, the best attested of them all, Hecataeus of Miletus.

The account of Dionysius seems to be nothing but a rationalistic interpretation of the genuine legend.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

Thus, Dionysius probably preserves the correct account.

Dionysius ' account of the law contains anachronisms and indicates his unfamiliarity with the customs of the early Republic.

To either side of him are depicted the Hieromartyr s Dionysius the Areopagite and Ignatius of Antioch | Ignatius the God-Bearer who, according to sacred tradition, are responsible for transmitting the account of the dormition.

He moved it back to 4004 BC to take account of an error perpetrated by Dionysius Exiguus, the founder of the Anno Domini numbering system.

) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from Ignatius and Dionysius the Areopagite to Jerome and Gregory the Great, and even of later writers from Isidore and Bede, through Alcuin, Lanfranc and Anselm, down to Bernard of Clairvaux and the brethren of St Victor.

All particulars about his life are unknown, and were so even in the time of Dionysius, since Hermippus, who had written an account of the disciples of Isocrates, did not mention Isaeus at all.

It is a singular fact that, though we have no account of Motya having received any Greek population, or fallen into the hands of the Greeks before its conquest by Dionysius, there exist coins of the city with the Greek legend " ΜΟΤΥΑΙΟΝ ".