Diyllus ( grc-gre, Δίυλλος), probably the son of Phanodemus the
Atthidographer
In ancient Greece, Atthidographers ( grc, Ἀτθιδογράφος, ''atthidographos'') were local historians of Attica. They wrote histories of Athens called ''Atthides'' (singular: ''Atthis''). Atthidography is the best-attested genre of loca ...
(a chronicler of the local history of
Athens and
Attica
Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Se ...
), wrote a
universal history of the years 357–296 BC. His work seems to have been a continuation of
Ephorus' history, and was itself continued by Psaon of Plataea. The work was in 26 books, though only fragments survive. Both the historian
Diodorus Siculus and the biographer
Plutarch valued Diyllus as a competent authority.
References
*Felix Jacoby, ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', (1923).
*Albin Lesky, ''A History of Greek Literature'', (1966).
*''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (1949).
* Christopher Tuplin, "Universal Histories (''Hellenica'')", in Marincola (ed.) ''A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography''.
External links
Diyllus: Fragmentsat attalus.org
Hellenistic-era historians
3rd-century BC historians
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