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Sicilian History (Fragments) collects the remains of the Sicelica of Athanis of Syracuse, a Syracusan historian of the fourth century BC and a contemporary of Dion and Timoleon. According to Diodorus, his history began with Dion's expedition against Dionysius II and continued the work of Philistus. It survives only in a few citations: Athenaeus quotes it on words coined by Dionysius, and Plutarch's Life of Timoleon cites it for the number of new settlers at Syracuse and for Timoleon's loss of sight.
Athanis wrote as a contemporary of the upheavals in mid-fourth-century Syracuse, and his account was one of the sources behind later narratives of Dion and Timoleon. Even in its fragmentary state it points to the rich tradition of Sicilian Greek historiography that lies behind the surviving works of Diodorus and Plutarch.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 562; FHG II 81). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).