Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The work towards the close shows some marks of weariness.

The title, Ioudaike Archaiologia, and the division into twenty books were doubtless derived from the great Roman history, Romaike Archaiologia, of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

In books Roman numeral one through ten, the narrative closely follows the biblical account down to the Babylonian captivity.

Roman numeral eleven carries on the story to Alexander the Great.

Besides the authorities whom he names in the Antiquities, Josephus, who devoted much attention to style, made a special study of the great masters.

The use which he has made of his chief model forms an interesting study.

Was it Dionysius of Halicarnassus, to whom, as we saw, he owed the title and arrangement of his Antiquities and his essays on the style of Thucydides, that first introduced him to the historian of the Peloponnesian War? Or did he trace a likeness to himself in the great Athenian? Widely different as were the characters of the two men, there were points of similarity in their careers.

Like Josephus, Thucydides combined the duties of general and historian of the great war.

The other big writer from that period is Virgil and his Aeneid, which tells a very similar story.

And Dionysus of Halicarnassus, who is also writing at the same time.

And they were all writing in the same 50 year period for the same audience of people who are having to relearn their history because it now needs to explain Augustus's rise and the new republic as they were coming to see it, which we now know as the Empire.

What we would call in America Roman exceptionalism.

And that word Phoenician, signifying the people of purple, Well, that word has an attrition root, which is puni.

And the first people, according to the historical record accounted for by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the first people to clothe themselves or adorn themselves in Syrian purple, as they call it, we call it tir now, but it's pronounced sur, they were the Vettelonians, which is an attrition city-state.

So this is why I'm maintaining this has an attrusion origin, because every which way detail that comes up, I can trace it back, kind of like all roads lead to Rome.

When it comes to this stuff, all roads lead to Etruria, in my opinion.

But in addition to that, the timing of this, the heroes being all assembled, waited for the rising of the Pleiades, or the Pleiades, which is the doves in Taurus, at which season they set sail.

Now, if people have never lived in a maritime portion of the world... maybe lived in a part of the country where there's like great lakes or whatever but especially and the and if you live on the coast of any sea there are times where everybody takes their boats out of the boat yard and put them in the ocean and more them so that they can go enjoy their boats whenever they want or they they put them on the docks or whatever whatever it is but that's the time of year and so This is the reason, in my opinion, that the Greeks called, or at least some of the people in the Greek world called the Etruscans by the name of Pelagians.

And this is admitted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus citing another historian, Mersilius of Lesbos.

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The work towards the close shows some marks of weariness.

The title, Iudaicae Archaiologia, and the division into twenty books were doubtless derived from the great Roman history, Romaicae Archaiologia, of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

In books Roman numeral one through ten, the narrative closely follows the biblical account down to the Babylonian captivity.

Roman numeral eleven carries on the story to Alexander the Great.

Besides the authorities whom he names in the Antiquities, Josephus, who devoted much attention to style, made a special study of the great masters.

The use which he has made of his chief model forms an interesting study.

Was it Dionysius of Halicarnassus, to whom, as we saw, he owed the title and arrangement of his Antiquities and his essays on the style of Thucydides that first introduced him to the historian of the Peloponnesian War? Or did he trace a likeness to himself in the great Athenian? Widely different as were the characters of the two men, there were points of similarity in their careers.

Like Josephus, Thucydides combined the duties of general and historian of the great war.