Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, 
;  – after 7 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric. He flourished when Augustus was ruler of the Roman Empire.Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities, Book I, Chapter 6. His writing style was "atticistic" meaning that it imitated Attic Greek. Dionysius wrote a history of Rome titled the Roman Antiquities.

Life
Dionysius was a native of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor.. He moved to Rome in 30/29 BCE after the end of the Roman civil wars and studied Latin.. During this time, Dionysius taught rhetoric. The date of his death is unknown.. In the 19th century, it was commonly thought that he was the ancestor of Aelius Dionysius of Halicarnassus..

Works
Dionysius wrote an important work titled Roman Antiquities (, Rhōmaikē Archaiologia). It narrates the history of Rome from the mythical period to the start of the First Punic War. The work has twenty books but only the first nine have survived while the other books exist only as fragments. The thesis of Dionysius' work "was that Rome was a Greek city, Latin a Greek dialect, and Romans really Greeks."

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