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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.
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Dionysius and Halicarnassus
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.
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 ( book 1 ) rejected this account of the people he called the Tyrrhenians, partly on the authority of Xanthus, a Lydian historian, who had no knowledge of the story, and partly on what he judged to be the different languages, laws, and religions of the two peoples.
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.
Dionysius and us
Pliny's Natural History records the westward progress of the plane " introduced among us from a foreign clime for nothing but its shade ", planted first at the tomb of Diomedes on the island of Tremiti, then imported to Greek Sicily by Dionysius the Elder ( c. 432-367 BC ), tyrant of Syracuse.
O God, who hast enlightened thy Church by the teaching of thy servant Dionysius: Enrich us evermore with thy heavenly grace, and raise up faithful witnesses who by their life and doctrine will set forth the truth of thy salvation ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and ever.
The city was of Siculian origin, and its foundation is related by Diodorus, who informs us that in 403 BCE the inhabitants of Herbita ( a Siculian city ), having concluded peace with Dionysius I of Syracuse, their ruler or chief magistrate Archonides determined to quit the city and found a new colony, which he settled partly with citizens of Herbita, and partly with mercenaries and other strangers who collected around him through enmity towards Dionysius.
Dionysius and Alcaeus
Dionysius Chalcus, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Antiphanes make frequent and familiar allusion to the cottabus – and it appears on vases from the era ; but in the writers of the Roman and Alexandrian period such reference as occurs shows that the fashion had died out.
Dionysius and with
However, it is clear he was familiar with the works of Virgil and with Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and his monastery also owned copies of the works of Dionysius Exiguus.
Dionysius Thrax calls consonants sýmphōna " pronounced with " because they can only be pronounced with a vowel.
The formation of the Latin League led by Laevius ( or Baebius ) Egerius happened under the influence of an alliance with the tyrant of Cuma Aristodemos and is probably connected to the political events at end of the 6th century narrated by Livy and Dionysius, such as the siege of Aricia by Porsenna's son Arruns.
In the West, grammar emerged as a discipline in Hellenism from the 3rd c. BC forward with authors like Rhyanus and Aristarchus of Samothrace, the oldest extant work being the Art of Grammar (), attributed to Dionysius Thrax ( ca.
In the West, the school of thought that came to be known as " traditional grammar " began with the work of Dionysius Thrax.
* Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, breaks his peace treaty with Carthage and strikes at Carthaginian cities in the western corner of Sicily which have been weakened by the plague.
* Dionysius I's third war with Carthage proves disastrous.
In this year, the monk Dionysius Exiguus proposed a calendar starting with the birth of Jesus ( the AD system ), so this was the first time the year was designated AD.
His A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy published early in 1831 as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopædia set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship between observation and theorising.
* Pope Dionysius convenes a synod at Rome to demand an explanation from bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, who has been charged with separating the members of the Trinity as three distinct deities.
The Selinuntines are again mentioned in 397 BCE as declaring in favor of Dionysius during his war with Carthage ; but both the city and territory were again given up to the Carthaginians by the peace of 383 BCE ( Id.
Dionysius ' first war with Carthage ends with a notable victory for Dionysius, who confines his enemy's power to an area of northwest Sicily.
Romulus set to work with his supporters, digging a trench ( or building a wall, according to Dionysius ) around the Palatine to define his city boundary.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus says, however, that Romulus was 55 when he died and that he reigned for a total of 37 years, agreeing as he notes with others before him that Romulus began his reign at 18.
* Himilco crosses to Sicily from Carthage with a fresh army, conquers the north coast, puts Dionysius I, the Tyrant of Syracuse, on the defensive and besieges Syracuse.
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