Athanas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθάνας, fl. 4th century BCE) of Syracuse was a historical writer who wrote a work on Sicily and Dion of Syracuse that continued the history of Philistus, and was quoted respectfully by the historians Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.
He is probably the same as the writer named "Athanis" mentioned by the grammarian Athenaeus who also wrote a work on Sicily.
References
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Timoleon" 23, 37
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xv. 94
- Mure, William (1850). A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece. Vol. 5. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 545. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- Clarke, Katherine (2008). Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780191537530. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- Siculus, Diodorus (2019). The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors. Translated by Waterfield, Robin. Oxford University Press. p. 538. ISBN 9780191078064. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae iii. p. 98
- Franz Göller, De situ et origine Syracusarum ad explicandam Thucydidis potissimum historiam scripsit atque Philisti et Timaei rerum Sicularum fragmenta adjecit, p. 16
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athanas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 393.