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Born c.350 BCE • TaorminaItaly
Died After 264 BCE
Subjects Of Study Sicily

Philistus
Greek historian
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides
Greek historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius
Greek historian
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Arrian
Greek historian
Ephorus
Greek historian
Theopompus of Chios
Greek historian
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
Hellanicus of Lesbos
Greek historian
Diodorus Siculus
Greek historian
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Greek historian
Ctesias
Greek physician and historian
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Callisthenes of Olynthus
Greek historian
Phanias
Greek philosopher
Nicholas of Damascus
Greek historian and philosopher
Agathias
Byzantine historian and poet
Megasthenes
Greek historian

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