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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus (lived 1st century BC)

Greek critic and historian, who settled in Rome 30 BC and wrote 20 books on the early history of Rome, ten of which are extant. He also wrote on rhetoric (prose style).



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Ta'rif Khalidi states that this classification is Greek in origin and refers to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities trans.
A quick survey takes us from Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, to Hermogenes and Cicero (34-38), but then we suddenly double back to Isocrates, Plato again (an uncritical account of the Gorgias and Phaedrus), Aristotle again, Demetrius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero again, Quintilian, and Seneca.
5; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, III; Cicero, De oratore, 23:78-79; Quintilian III.
 
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