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Dionysius Of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.6.5

nan And I, who have not turned aside to this work for the sake of flattery, but out of a regard for truth and justice, which ought to be the aim of every history, shall have an opportunity, in the first place, of expressing my attitude of goodwill toward all good men and toward all who take pleasure in the contemplation of great and noble deeds; and, in the second place, of making the most grateful return that I may to the city and other blessings I have enjoyed during my residence in it. <

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 5.78, 5.97.2, 6.131.2, 7.139.1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 5.78. So the Athenians grew in power and proved, not in one respect only but in all, that equality is a good thing. Evidence for this is the fact that while they were under tyrannical rulers, the Athenians were no better in war than any of their neighbors, yet once they got rid of their tyrants, they were by far the best of all. This, then, shows that while they were oppressed, they were, as men working for a master, cowardly, but when they were freed, each one was eager to achieve for himself. 5.97.2. This he said adding that the Milesians were settlers from Athens, whom it was only right to save seeing that they themselves were a very powerful people. There was nothing which he did not promise in the earnestness of his entreaty, till at last he prevailed upon them. It seems, then, that it is easier to deceive many than one, for he could not deceive Cleomenes of Lacedaemon, one single man, but thirty thousand Athenians he could. 6.131.2. he and Hippocrates were born to Megacles; Hippocrates was father of another Megacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste who was Cleisthenes' daughter. She was married to Xanthippus son of Ariphron, and when she was pregt she saw in her sleep a vision in which she thought she gave birth to a lion. In a few days she bore Xanthippus a son, Pericles. 7.139.1. Here I am forced to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to most, but I will not refrain from saying what seems to me to be true.
2. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Polybius, Histories, 1.1.2, 1.4.6-1.4.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
4. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.1.5, 1.2.2, 1.3.8, 19.1.6-19.1.8, 37.1.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.2.2.  For we must look upon it as constituting the guardian of the high achievements of illustrious men, the witness which testifies to the evil deeds of the wicked, and the benefactor of the entire human race. For if it be true that the myths which are related about Hades, in spite of the fact that their subject-matter is fictitious, contribute greatly to fostering piety and justice among men, how much more must we assume that history, the prophetess of truth, she who is, as it were, the mother-city of philosophy as a whole, is still more potent to equip men's characters for noble living! 1.3.8.  The reason for this is that, in the first place, it is not easy for those who propose to go through the writings of so many historians to procure the books which come to be needed, and, in the second place, that, because the works vary so widely and are so numerous, the recovery of past events becomes extremely difficult of comprehension and of attainment; whereas, on the other hand, the treatise which keeps within the limits of a single narrative and contains a connected account of events facilitates the reading and contains such recovery of the past in a form that is perfectly easy to follow. In general, a history of this nature must be held to surpass all others to the same degree as the whole is more useful than the part and continuity than discontinuity, and, again, as an event whose date has been accurately determined is more useful than one of which it is not known in what period it happened. 19.1.6.  The most extraordinary instance of all is that of Agathocles who became tyrant of the Syracusans, a man who had the lowest beginnings, but who plunged not only Syracuse but also the whole of Sicily and Libya into the gravest misfortunes. 19.1.7.  Although, compelled by lack of means and slender fortune, he turned his hand to the potter's trade, he rose to such a peak of power and cruelty that he enslaved the greatest and fairest of all islands, for a time possessed the larger part of Libya and parts of Italy, and filled the cities of Sicily with outrage and slaughter. 19.1.8.  No one of the tyrants before him brought any such achievements to completion nor yet displayed such cruelty toward those who had become his subjects. For example, he used to punish a private individual by slaughtering all his kindred, and to exact reckoning from cities by murdering the people from youth up; and on account of a few who were charged with a crime, he would compel the many, who had done no evil at all, to suffer the same fate, condemning to death the entire population of cities.
5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.6.2-1.6.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 1.6.2.  Like to these in all respects are the histories of those Romans, also, who related in Greek the early achievements of the city; the oldest of these writers are Quintus Fabius and Lucius Cincius, who both flourished during the Punic wars. Each of these men related the events at which he himself had been present with great exactness, as being well acquainted with them, but touched only in a summary way upon the early events that followed the founding of the city. 1.6.3.  For these reasons, therefore, I have determined not to pass over a noble period of history which the older writers left untouched, a period, moreover, the accurate portrayal of which will lead to the following most excellent and just results: In the first place, the brave men who have fulfilled their destiny will gain immortal glory and be extolled by posterity, which things render human nature like unto the divine and prevent men's deeds from perishing together with their bodies. 1.6.4.  And again, both the present and future descendants of those godlike men will choose, not the pleasantest and easiest of lives, but rather the noblest and most ambitious, when they consider that all who are sprung from an illustrious origin ought to set a high value on themselves and indulge in no pursuit unworthy of their ancestors.
6. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On Thucydides, 24.12 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
7. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, De Veterum Censura, 4.1-4.2 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
8. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Letter To Pompeius Geminus, 4.1 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
9. Livy, History, None (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
10. Sallust, Iugurtha, 4.5-4.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Herodian, History of The Empire After Marcus, 1.2.5, 2.15.6-2.15.7 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
12. Lucian, How To Write History, 9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
ancestor	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
aphrodisias (caria),basilica	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
aphrodisias (caria)	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
architecture	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
arrian	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
athens	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
biography	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
chronology (in narrative)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
classicality and classicizing	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77
conventions or themes,moral focus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
conventions or themes,political or military focus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
destruction of\n,rome	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
dionysius of halicarnassus,coherence of corpus	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77
dionysius of halicarnassus,globalism and unity,herodotuss role in ideas of	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
dionysius of halicarnassus,prohairesis (deliberate choice)	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77
dionysius of halicarnassus,roman antiquities	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77, 101
dionysius of halicarnassus,rome and roman history	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 77
dionysius of halicarnassus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71; Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77, 101
diplomacy	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
education	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
empire	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
encomium,visual	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
encomium	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45; Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
fortune,τύχη/fortuna	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
founder	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
hero,eponymos	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
herodotus and the histories,political warnings of	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
historiography	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
history	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
identity,local/regional	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
marcus aurelius	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
moral(isation)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
myth,foundation	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
myth,local	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
order,narrative	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
persia and persians	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
pleasure (in historiography)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
progress,historical	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
providence,πρόνοια/providentia	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
readers,active engagement/response	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
readers,pleasure	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
rome,as empire	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 77
rome,centrality to dionysius of halicarnassuss rhetorical program	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 76, 77
rome,relation to greekness	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101
self-representation	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
septimius severus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
state reliefs,honorific (	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 45
tacitus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
tyranny/tyrants'	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 10
xerxes	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 101