Dinon or Deinon (

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or ) of Colophon (c. 360–340 BC) was a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and

chronicler A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

, the author of a history of

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, many fragments of which survive. The Suda mistakenly attributes this work to Dio Cassius. He is the father of

Cleitarchus Cleitarchus or Clitarchus ( el, Κλείταρχος) was one of the historians of Alexander the Great. Son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. He was active in the mid to late 4th cent ...

. He takes the history of the near East from where

Ctesias Ctesias (; grc-gre, Κτησίας; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire. Historical events Ctesias, who lived in the fi ...

leaves off, and, while indulging in the taste for the low, was held in considerably more regard than that author's '' Persica''.

External links

Article at the ''Enciclopedia Iranica''

Editions

* Lenfant, Dominique (ed., trans. comm.), ''Les histoires perses de Dinon et d'Héraclide'' (Paris: De Boccard, 2009) (Persika, 13). Ancient Colophonians Classical-era Greek historians Historians from ancient Anatolia Achaemenid Empire {{greece-historian-stub