Athanas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθάνας, fl. 4th century BCE) of Syracuse was a historical writer who wrote a work on Sicily and Dion of Syracuse that continued the history of Philistus, and was quoted respectfully by the historians Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.[1][2][3][4][5]
He is probably the same as the writer named "Athanis" mentioned by the grammarian Athenaeus who also wrote a work on Sicily.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Timoleon" 23, 37
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xv. 94
- ^ Mure, William (1850). A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece. Vol. 5. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 545. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Clarke, Katherine (2008). Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780191537530. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Siculus, Diodorus (2019). The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors. Translated by Waterfield, Robin. Oxford University Press. p. 538. ISBN 9780191078064. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae iii. p. 98
- ^ Franz Göller, De situ et origine Syracusarum ad explicandam Thucydidis potissimum historiam scripsit atque Philisti et Timaei rerum Sicularum fragmenta adjecit, p. 16
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athanas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 393.