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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

60 BC - 7 BC

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, Dionúsios Alexándrou Halikarnasseús, ''Dionysios (son of Alexandros) of Halikarnassos''; c.  60 BC – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dionysius of Halicarnassus has received more than 489,575 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Dionysius of Halicarnassus is the 324th most popular writer (up from 336th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 151st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Turkish Writer.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus is most famous for his work "Roman Antiquities" which is a history of Rome from the earliest times to the death of Julius Caesar.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ranks 324 out of 5,755Before him are Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Carlos Castaneda, Georges Bataille, Arthur Schnitzler, and Einhard. After him are Graham Greene, Elfriede Jelinek, Arthur Miller, André Malraux, Mikhail Lermontov, and Ali-Shir Nava'i.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 60 BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ranks 2Before him is Ptolemy XIV of Egypt.  Among people deceased in 7 BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ranks 1After him are Emperor Cheng of Han and Aristobulus IV.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ranks 148 out of 1,301Before him are John VIII Palaiologos (1392), Fatma Sultan (1500), Nikephoros II Phokas (912), Nabonidus (-555), Pope Vitalian (600), and Zeno (425). After him are Saint Nino (296), Michael VII Doukas (1050), Narses (478), Stilicho (359), Hecuba (null), and Abdullah Öcalan (1949).

Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ranks 7Before him are Hesiod (-800), Lucian (120), Anacreon (-570), Constantine VII (905), Orhan Pamuk (1952), and Anna Komnene (1083). After him are Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Yunus Emre (1240), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Novatian (220), Theodore the Studite (759), and Aratus (-315).