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Headword:
Dionusios
Adler number: delta,1179
Translated headword: Dionysius, Dionysios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of the tyrant of
Sicily[1] and a tyrant and philosopher himself. [He wrote]
Letters and
On the poems of Epicharmus.[2]
Greek Original:Dionusios, huios tou Sikelias turannou kai autos turannos kai philosophos. Epistolas kai Peri tôn poiêmatôn Epicharmou.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v.
Dionysius(2).
[1] See
delta 1178.
[2] =
Epicharmus testimonium #33 Kassel-Austin. E. was a Sicilian writer of comedy who flourished in the early fifth century BCE; the Suda [
epsilon 2766] calls him, together with Phormus, the inventor of comedy at Syracuse.
Keywords: biography; comedy; geography; history; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 19 July 2000@05:56:33.
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