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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 296 (v. 3)
		As it ended only five years after the accession of the younger tyrant, it is probable that Philistus had not found time to continue it after his own return from exile.
		In point of style Philistus is represented by the concurrent testimony of antiquity as imitating and even closely resembling Thucydides, though still falling far short of his great model.
		The gravest reproach to the character of Philistus as an historian is the charge brought against him by many writers of antiquity that he had sought to palliate the tyrannical deeds of Dionysius, and give a specious colour to his conduct in order to pave the way for his own return from exile.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2630.html (947 words)

	Philistus - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Philistus, Greek historian of Sicily, was born at Syracuse about the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (432 BC).
		When Dion set sail from Zacynthus with the object of liberating Syracuse, Philistus was entrusted with the command of the fleet, but he was defeated and put to death (356).
		During his stay at Adria, Philistus occupied himself with the composition of his history of Sicily in eleven books.
	www.music.us /education/P/Philistus.htm (435 words)

	Plutarch's Lives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They supposed, therefore, that there would be no longer need of the soldiers, who were all landsmen and armed accordingly: these were rather, indeed, they thought, in a condition to be protected by themselves, who were seamen, and had their power in their shipping.
		Philistus, however, has stated, that this was said to Dionysius by another, and not by himself.
		Timaeus avails himself of this advantage, which Philistus truly enough affords against himself in his zealous and constant adherence to the tyranny, to vent his own spleen and malice against him.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/plutarchetext96plivs10/1878.html (187 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Dion by Plutarch
		But Dion's enemies, fearing an alteration in Dionysius, persuaded him to recall from banishment Philistus, a man of learned education, and at the same time of great experience in the ways of tyrants, and who might serve as a counterpoise to Plato and his philosophy.
		For Philistus from the beginning had been a great instrument in establishing the tyranny, and for a long time had held the office of captain of the citadel.
		Whereupon, he fled to some of his friends on the Adriatic coast, in which retirement and leisure it is probable he wrote the greatest part of his history; for he returned not into his country during the reign of that Dionysius.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /mirror/classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/dion.html (5900 words)

	Philistus -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Philistus helped Dionysius the Elder to seize power in Syracuse in 405 and then became his right-hand man and commander of the citadel.
		He was later exiled (386/385) for unknown reasons but was recalled after 20 years by Dionysius the Younger at the time of Plato's first visit to his court.
		Philistus held high command first in the Adriatic and later at home in the civil war and died on active service.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9059702 (334 words)

	Dionysius the Elder
		His life was written by Philistus, but the work is no longer extant.
		Dionysius was regarded by the ancients as a type of the worst kind of despot -- cruel, suspicious and vindictive.
		Like Peisistratus, he was fond of having distinguished literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner.
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	Dion (tyrant of Syracuse) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his youth, he was an admirer and pupil of Plato, whom Dionysius had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the tyrant.
		The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic power, succeeded in procuring his banishment on account of alleged intrigues with the Carthaginians.
		The exiled philosopher retired to Athens, where he was at first permitted to enjoy his revenues in peace; but the intercession of Plato (who had again visited Syracuse to procure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the tyrant, and at length provoked him to confiscate the property of Dion, and give his wife to another.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dion-(tyrant-of-Syracuse).htm (327 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Nicias by Plutarch
		Such actions in Nicias's life as Thucydides and Philistus have related, since they cannot be passed by, illustrating as they do most especially his character and temper, under his many and great troubles, that I may not seem altogether negligent, I shall briefly run over.
		And such things as are not commonly known, and lie scattered here and there in other men's writings, or are found amongst the old monuments and archives, I shall endeavour to bring together; not collecting mere useless pieces of learning, but adducing what may make his disposition and habit of mind understood.
		Timaeus says that Demosthenes and Nicias did not die, as Thucydides and Philistus have written, by the order of the Syracusans, but that upon a message sent them from Hermocrates, whilst yet the assembly were sitting, by the connivance of some of their guards, they were enabled to put an end to themselves.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/nicias.html (6837 words)

	Thucydides (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is the silent testimony of the three historians who began where he left off, not attempting, in spite of much independence of opinion, to revise what he had already done, not even the last book, which he clearly did not complete.
		Another historian, Philistus, a Syracusan who was a boy during the Athenian siege of his city, had little to alter or to add to Thucydides' account in his own History of Sicily.
		Above all, there are the contemporary political comedies of Aristophanes--a man about 15 years younger than Thucydides with as different a temper and writing purpose as could be--which remarkably reinforce the reliability of the historian's dark picture of Athens at war.
	www.kat.gr /kat/history/Greek/Tc/Thucydides.htm (2112 words)

	PHILISTUS - Online Information article about PHILISTUS
		He was then recalled by the younger Dionysius, whom he persuaded to dismiss See also:
		object of liberating Syracuse from the tyrannis, Philistus was entrusted with the command of the See also:
		During his stay at Adria, Philistus occupied himself with the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHILISTUS.html (428 words)

	§8. Pastoral Poems. VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The affectation only becomes oppressive in the case of writers like Bartholomew Yong, whose feeling was insufficiently ardent to endow the borrowed form with life.
		His Arsilius, Melisea, Alanius and the rest strike the reader as pieces of pedantry, while Lodge’s Montanus (we are speaking only of the lyrics), or some unknown poet’s Philistus, or Daphne, or Phyllida, are men and women.
		The contrast between the technical accomplishment of these poets and of those of the earlier school is very great.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 294 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was an actor, as well as a writer of mimes, and is said, in an epigram preserved in the Greek Anthology, to have died of excessive laughter (Jacobs, Anih.
		The first occasion on which we hear of his appearance in public life was after the capture of Agrigentmn by the Carthaginians in B.
		According to one account, also, it was Philistus who, by his energetic and spirited counsels, prevented Dionvsius from abandoning
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2628.html (862 words)

	Articles - Dionysius I of Syracuse (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His life was written by Philistus, but the work is not extant.
		Like Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, Dionysius was fond of having distinguished literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner.
		The Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse is an artificial limestone cave named after Dionysius.
	www.scannera.com /articles/Dionysius_of_Syracuse (424 words)

	PHILISTUS - LoveToKnow Article on PHILISTUS
		When Dion set sail from Zacynthus with the object of liberating Syracuse from the tyrannis, Philistus was entrusted with the command of the fleet, but he was defeated and put to death (356).
		During his stay at Adria, Philistus occupied himself with the composition of his Ke?~uciL, a history of Sicily in eleven books.
		To properly cite this PHILISTUS article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHILISTUS.htm (335 words)

	Ethics of Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander by Sanderson Beck
		Dionysius II succeeded his father Dionysius I as tyrant in Sicily in 367 BC by preventing Dion from arranging with his dying father that his half brothers Hipparinus and Nysaeus share power.
		When Plato lectured on the goodness of justice and the misery of unjust tyranny, Dionysius was displeased and finally admitted that if Plato was looking for a virtuous man, his labor was lost there.
		While Dionysius was in the citadel, his general Philistus gathered 2,000 soldiers and attacked rebelling Leontini.
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	Dion - Plutarch's Lives
		For Philistus from the beginning had been a great instrument in establishing the tyranny, and for a long time had held the office of captain of the citadel.
		They supposed, therefore, that there would be no longer need of the soldiers, who were all landsmen and armed accordingly: these were rather, indeed, they thought, in a condition to be protected by themselves, who were seamen, and had their power in their shipping.
		Philistus, however, has stated, that this was said to Dionysius by another, and not by himself.
	www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/dion.htm (8858 words)

	The Malice of Herodotus
		Second, it is obvious that a historian enjoys slander when he latches onto people's faults and unnecessarily inserts them into his history even though they do not belong there, protracting the narrative and digressing from it so as to include their bad luck or their pointless and foolish actions.
		For this reason, Thucydides never gave a detailed account of even Cleon's crimes, though there were many, and dismissed Hyperbolus the demagogue by calling him a "rascal." In addition, Philistus left out all the crimes of Dionysius, against the barbarians which could not be woven into the history of events in Greece.
		The digressions and meanderings in Philistus' history are mostly devoted to myths and legends, or to praising his characters.?
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /plutarch.htm (1469 words)

	PHILISTUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - PHILISTUS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		PHILISTUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - PHILISTUS - JCSM's Study Center
		set sail from Zacynthus with the object of liberating Syracuse from the tyrannis, Philistus was entrusted with the command of the
		During his stay at Adria, Philistus occupied himself with the composition of his ILKe?iK6., a history of Sicily in eleven books.
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/PER_PIG/PHILISTUS.html (485 words)

	Diodorus Siculus historian Olympiad Mesopotamia Alexander the Great Philistus Polybius Posidonius Herodotus Philip ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The last section (books XVII to the end) concerns the historical events from the successors of Alexander down to either 60 BC or the beginning of Caesar's Gallic War in 45 BC.
		The authors he drew from, who have been identified, include: Hecataeus, Ctesius of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyullis, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius and Posidonius.
		This liberal use of earlier historians underlies the harsh opinion of the author of the 1911 Encyclop?a Britannica article on Diodorus: :The faults of Diodorus arise partly from the nature of the undertaking, and the awkward form of annals into which he has thrown the historical portion of his narrative.
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	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 1512
		And passing the temple of the Eumenides, arrived at Gaeson and Scolopoeis, which are in the territory of Mycale.
		Here is a temple of Eleusinian Demeter, built by Philistus the son of Pasicles who came to Asia with Neileus the son of Codrus, at the time he founded Miletus.
		At this place they drew the ships up on the beach, and surrounded them with a rampart made of stones and trunks of trees, cutting down for this purpose all the fruit trees which grew near, and defending the barrier by means of stakes firmly planted in the ground.
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	Alexander the Great and Aristotle
		He was naturally a great lover of all kinds of learning and reading; and Onesicritus informs us that he constantly laid Homer's Iliad, according to the copy corrected by Aristotle, called the casket copy, with his dagger under his pillow, declaring that he esteemed it a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge.
		When he was in the upper Asia, being destitute of other books, he ordered Harpalus to send him some; who furnished him with Philistus' History, a great many of the plays of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus, and some dithyrambic odes, composed by Telestes and Philoxenus.
		For a while he loved and cherished Aristotle no less, as he was wont to say himself, than if he had been his father, giving this reason for it, that as he had received life from the one, so the other had taught him to live well.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander_t04.html (530 words)

	DIONYSIUS (c. 432367 B.C.) - Encyclopedia Britannica - DIONYSIUS (c. 432367 B.C.) - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His life was written by Philistus, but the
		, he was fond of having distinguished literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner.
		BASS (the same word as " base," and so pronounced, but influenced in spelling by the Ital.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/DIO_DRO/DIONYSIUS_c_432367_BC_.html (529 words)

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