Dionysius of Miletus
Dionysius of Miletus was an ancient Greek historian . He lived in the late 6th / early 5th century BC. Chr.
Almost nothing is known about the life of Dionysius, one of the earliest Greek historians. He is said to have been a contemporary of Hecataeus of Miletus .
According to the Middle Byzantine Lexicon Suda , Dionysius wrote, among other things, a story after Darius in five books, a work on the Trojan War in three books and a "Persian story" ( Persica ) in Ionic Greek. Very few fragments of these works have survived. Felix Jacoby and other researchers have suggested that Dionysius served as a source for Herodotus' histories , but this is controversial (e.g. Klaus Meister rejects it ).
literature
- Antonios Rengakos : Historiography. In: Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Handbook of Greek literature in antiquity . Volume 1: The literature of the archaic and classical times . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57673-7 , p. 326ff., Here p. 337f.
Remarks
- ^ Suda δ 1180 . In the Suda, an epic cycle written by Dionysios of Samos is wrongly attributed to him .
- ↑ The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 687.
- ↑ Klaus Meister: Dionysius (5). In: The Oxford Classical Dictionary . 4th edition, Oxford 2012, p. 460.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dionysius of Miletus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dionysius Milesius (Latin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |