{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0081.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg001.local001","title":"Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία","titleGreek":"Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Dionysius of Halicarnassus","authorityName":"DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","editors":["Karl Jacoby"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1885-1905","volume":"1-4","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/dionysihalicarna01dioniala/page/viii/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Dionysius Of Halicarnassus. Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία. ed. Karl Jacoby. Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum, Leipzig, Teubner, 1885-1905. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"τοὺς εἰωθότας ἀποδίδοσθαι τοῖς προοιμίοις τῶν ἱστοριῶν λόγους ἥκιστα βουλόμενος ἀναγκάζομαι περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ προειπεῖν, οὔτʼ ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις μέλλων πλεονάζειν ἐπαίνοις, οὓς ἐπαχθεῖς οἶδα φαινομένους τοῖς ἀκούουσιν, οὔτε διαβολὰς καθʼ ἑτέρων ἐγνωκὼς ποιεῖσθαι συγγραφέων, ὥσπερ Ἀναξιμένης καὶ Θεόπομπος ἐν τοῖς προοιμίοις τῶν ἱστοριῶν ἐποίησαν, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἐμαυτοῦ λογισμοὺς ἀποδεικνύμενος, οἷς ἐχρησάμην ὅτε ἐπὶ ταύτην ὥρμησα τὴν πραγματείαν, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀφορμῶν ἀποδιδοὺς λόγον, ἐξ ὧν τὴν ἐμπειρίαν ἔλαβον τῶν γραφησομένων. ἐπείσθην γὰρ ὅτι δεῖ τοὺς προαιρουμένους μνημεῖα τῆς ἑαυτῶν ψυχῆς τοῖς ἐπιγιγνομένοις καταλιπεῖν, ἃ μὴ συναφανισθήσεται τοῖς σώμασιν αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ χρόνου, καὶ πάντων μάλιστα τοὺς ἀναγράφοντας ἱστορίας, ἐν αἷς καθιδρῦσθαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν πάντες ὑπολαμβάνομεν ἀρχὴν φρονήσεώς τε καὶ σοφίας οὖσαν, πρῶτον μὲν ὑποθέσεις προαιρεῖσθαι καλὰς καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖς καὶ πολλὴν ὠφέλειαν τοῖς…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-12"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-13"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-14"},{"label":"Book 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-15"},{"label":"Book 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-16"},{"label":"Book 17_18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-17_18"},{"label":"Book 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-19"},{"label":"Book 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/#tlg0081-tlg001-local001-20"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}