Antiochus of Syracuse

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Antiochus of Syracuse, Greek historian, flourished about 420 BC Nothing is known of his life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because of their accuracy. He wrote a History of Sicily from the earliest times to 424, which was used by Thucydides, and the Colonizing of Italy, frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

References

• Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i.
• Wölfflin, Antiochos von Syrakus, 1872.

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