Dionysius of Halicarnassus - (60/55 - 7 BC) - He was a Greek teacher of rhetoric and a distinguished literary critic who mixed in with Rome's upper crust after the civil wars which created the roman empire.
Wrote on these topics and also wrote his Roman Antiquities in twenty books, a history of Rome from the legendary beginnings to 264 BC. Books I-X and most of XI still exist, with fragments of the rest. He also wrote On the Arrangement of Words, On Imitation, On the Early Orators, On Thucydides, and On the Eloquence of Demosthenes.
A work entitled The Art of Rhetoric is associated with his name but may actually have been written later. Very rhetorical and prone to inserting dubious speeches, still a valid and valuable source. "History is philosophy learned from examples."
This article was provided by forum member Favonius Cornelius
Works:
The Roman Antiquities
On Thucydides
Various Works
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