Diyllus ( grc-gre, Δίυλλος), probably the son of Phanodemus the
Atthidographer
In ancient Greece, Atthidographers ( grc, Ἀτθιδογράφος, ''atthidographos'') were local historians of Attica. They wrote histories of Athens called ''Atthides'' (singular: ''Atthis''). Atthidography is the best-attested genre of loca ...
(a chronicler of the local history of
Athens
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and
Attica
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), wrote a
universal history
A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of mankind as a whole, coherent unit. A universal chronicle or world chronicle typically traces history from the beginning of written information about the past up to t ...
of the years 357–296 BC. His work seems to have been a continuation of
Ephorus
Ephorus of Cyme (; grc-gre, Ἔφορος ὁ Κυμαῖος, ''Ephoros ho Kymaios''; c. 400330 BC) was an ancient Greek historian known for his universal history.
Biography
Information on his biography is limited. He was born in Cyme, A ...
' history, and was itself continued by Psaon of Plataea. The work was in 26 books, though only fragments survive. Both the historian
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...
and the biographer
Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...
valued Diyllus as a competent authority.
References
*Felix Jacoby, ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', (1923).
*Albin Lesky, ''A History of Greek Literature'', (1966).
*''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (1949).
* Christopher Tuplin, "Universal Histories (''Hellenica'')", in Marincola (ed.) ''A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography''.
External links
Diyllus: Fragmentsat attalus.org
Hellenistic-era historians
3rd-century BC historians
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