Antiochus of Syracuse
Antiochus of Syracuse was an ancient Greek historian . He lived in the second half of the 5th century BC. Chr.
Life
Antiochus was a son of Xenophanes and had the year 423 BC. Witnessed. On the basis of this date it can at least be recorded that he lived at the time of the Peloponnesian War and was thus a contemporary of Thucydides .
Antiochus collected various local historical traditions (Sicily, southern Italy) and prior to that, probably mainly orally passed on founding narratives, viewed them critically - mythology hardly plays a role - and processed them in two main works, only fragments of which have survived : Sikelika (9 books, probably Detailed history of the settlement of Sicily from the time of King Kokalos to the Peace of Gela in 424/423 BC, with the names of the colony founders, and of Italy (settlement history, historical and geographical description of southern Italy and Sicily).
The ancient contemporaries and historiographers valued his works for their accuracy. Quotes from Sikelika can be found in Pausanias , Clemens von Alexandria and Theodoret , quotes from About Italy in Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus .
Text output
The fragments are collected in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians (No. 555) and in Brill's New Jacoby (No. 555, there with an English translation, commentary and biographical sketch by Nino Luraghi).
literature
- Leonhard Schmitz: Antiochus of Syracuse . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 1 : Abaeus – Dysponteus . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 195–196 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Otto Lendle : Introduction to Greek historiography. From Hekataios to Zosimos. Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-534-10122-7 , pp. 32-35.
- Nino Luraghi: Antioco di Siracusa. In: Riccardo Vattuone (ed.): Storici greci di Occidente. Bologna 2003, pp. 55-89.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antiochus of Syracuse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |