# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:50:32.470Z

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deathDate: "-7"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Dionysius arrived in Rome around 30 BC, during Augustus's consolidation of power, and stayed to teach rhetoric and write history. His style was atticistic, deliberately mimicking Classical Attic Greek at its height. The result was *Rhōmaikē Archaiologia* (*Roman Antiquities*), a twenty-book chronicle tracing Rome from its mythic foundations to the outbreak of the First Punic War in 264 BC. Only the first nine books survive. His insistence that true education required deep knowledge of classical sources — paideia drawn from the Greek canon — became a cornerstone of Greek elite identity for centuries after his death, sometime after 7 BC.