Antiochus of Syracuse ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a Greek historian, who flourished around 420 BC. Little is known of Antiochus' life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because of their accuracy. He wrote a ''History of Sicily'' from the earliest times to 424 BC, which was used by

Thucydides Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...

, and the ''Colonizing of Italy'', frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. He is one of the authors (= '' FGrHist'' 555) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's '' Fragmente der griechischen Historiker''.

References

* Müller, ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'', i. * Wölfflin, ''Antiochos von Syrakus'', 1872.

Attribution

Endnotes: * Classical-era Greek historians Historians from Magna Graecia 5th-century BC Syracusans 5th-century BC historians Writers of lost works Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources {{Greece-historian-stub