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(Greek Historian)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Greek historian and rhetoric teacher in the time of Emperor Augustus, was renowned for his atticistic literary style, which emulated Classical Attic Greek. His main opus, Rhōmaikē Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), provided a comprehensive account of Roman history until the First Punic War. Despite only nine of the original twenty books surviving, Dionysius' emphasis on the importance of paideia in education through a profound comprehension of classical sources had a lasting influence on the Greek elite's cultural identity for generations.
