Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus
An image of Dionysius of Halicarnassus from the Codices Ambrosiani.
Born	c. 60 BC Halicarnassus, Asia, Roman Republic (now Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey)
Died	c. 7 BC (aged around 53) Rome, Roman Empire (now Rome, Italy)
Citizenship	Roman
Occupations	Historian Rhetoric Writer

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, Dionúsios Alexándrou Halikarnasseús, ''Dionysios (son of Alexandros) of Halikarnassos''; c.  60 BC – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus.^[1] His literary style was atticistic – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime.

Dionysius' opinion of the necessity of a promotion of paideia within education, from true knowledge of classical sources, endured for centuries in a form integral to the identity of the Greek elite.^[2]