Antiochus of
Syracuse ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a Greek historian, who flourished around 420 BC. 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
Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...
, and the ''Colonizing of Italy'', frequently referred to by
Strabo and
Dionysius of Halicarnassus. He is one of the authors (= ''
FGrHist'' 555) whose fragments were collected in
Felix Jacoby's ''
Fragmente der griechischen Historiker''.
References
*
Müller, ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'', i.
* Wölfflin, ''Antiochos von Syrakus'', 1872.
Attribution
Endnotes:
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Classical-era Greek historians
Historians from Magna Graecia
5th-century BC Syracusans
5th-century BC historians
Writers of lost works
Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
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