Download or read book The Complete Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Illustrated written by Dionysius of Halicarnassus and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dionysius of Halicarnassus taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states that his objects in writing history were to please lovers of noble deeds and to repay the benefits he had enjoyed in Rome. Dionysius studied the best available literary sources (mainly annalistic and other historians) and possibly some public documents. His work and that of Livy are our only continuous and detailed independent narratives of early Roman history. Dionysius was author also of essays on literature covering rhetoric, Greek oratory, Thucydides, and how to imitate the best models in literature. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES ON LITERARY COMPOSITION THE THREE LITERARY LETTERS