Aelius Dionysius () was a Greek

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Halicarnassus Halicarnassus ( ; Latin: ''Halicarnassus'' or ''Halicarnāsus''; ''Halikarnāssós''; ; Carian language, Carian: 𐊠𐊣𐊫𐊰 𐊴𐊠𐊥𐊵𐊫𐊰 ''alos k̂arnos'') was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city in Caria, in Anatolia.

, who lived in the time of the emperor

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. He was a very skillful musician, and wrote several works on music and its history.

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, ''s.v.'' It is commonly supposed that he was a descendant of the elder

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, author of ''Roman Antiquities'', a history of Rome from its founding to the middle third century BCE. He was one of the teachers of Alexander Peloplaton. Nothing further is known of his life. The following works, which are now lost, are attributed to him by the ancients: *A dictionary of Attic words () in five books, dedicated to one Scymnus.

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speaks in high terms of its usefulness, and states that Aelius Dionysius himself made two editions of it, the second of which was a great improvement upon the first. Both editions appear to have been extant in the time of Photius. It seems to have been owing to this work that Aelius Dionysius was called sometimes by the surname of Atticista. *A history of music () in 36 books, with accounts of citharoedi, auletae, and poets of all kinds. *, in 24 books. *, in 22 books. *A work in five books on what Plato had said about music in his . *

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was of the opinion that this Dionysius was the author of the work , which was published by

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in 1496, in a volume titled ''Horti Adonidis''; but there is no evidence for this supposition. Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, ''Prolegom. ad Hom. Il.'' p. xxix.

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