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Headword: Διονύσιος
Adler number: delta,1179
Translated headword: Dionysius, Dionysios
Vetting Status: low
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:
Διονύσιος, υἱὸς τοῦ Σικελίας τυράννου καὶ αὐτὸς τύραννος καὶ φιλόσοφος. Ἐπιστολὰς καὶ Περὶ τῶν ποιημάτων Ἐπιχάρμου.
Notes:
[1] See delta 1178.
[2] 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; history; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 19 July 2000@05:56:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 26 March 2001@05:10:50.


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