He had come to Italy at the time when Augustus Caesar put an end to the civil war in the middle of the 187th Olympiad (the late in 30 BC). He had spent the following twenty years in acquiring himself with language and the literature of the Romans, in gathering his material an in writing his history. He lived there until his death sometime after 8 BC.
His literary style was Atticistic – imitating the classical Greek of Herodotus. His work called Rhōmaïke archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), which describes the history of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the first Punic war.
Punic wars were fought between ancient Carthage (present Tunisia) and roman republic between 264 to 46 BC. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BC.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
