Dionysios of Samos

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Dionysius of Samos ( Latinized Dionysius Samius ) was a Greek historian and mythographer of the Hellenistic period. He came from the island of Samos and probably worked in the 3rd / 2nd centuries. Century BC BC Dionysius was the author of an epic cycle ( Kyklos historikos ), which is lost as a whole today and which was wrongly ascribed to Dionysius of Miletus in the Byzantine lexicon Suda . The cycle was used, among others, by ancient Euripides and Pindar commentators , as proven by quotations. Due to the fragments, there is some evidence to consider the work of Dionysius as a mythological manual, with a particular interest in extraordinary events and details.

The fragments of his work are collected in Felix Jacoby's The Fragments of the Greek Historians (No. 15) and in Brill's New Jacoby (with English translation, commentary and biographical sketch by Paola Ceccarelli).

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SURNAME Dionysios of Samos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dionysius Samius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek historian
DATE OF BIRTH between 4th century BC BC and 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 4th century BC BC and 1st century BC Chr.