Antiochus of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀντίοχος ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a Greek historian of Magna Graecia, who flourished around 420 BC.[1] Little is known of Antiochus' life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because of their accuracy. He wrote a History of Sicily from the earliest times to 424 BC, which was used by Thucydides, and the Colonizing of Italy, frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.[1] He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 555) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
References
Further reading
- Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i (1841).
- Wölfflin, Antiochos von Syrakus, 1872.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antiochus of Syracuse". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 132. Endnotes:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Anti'ochus of Syracuse". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
