(Ἄθανις; Áthanis). A. from Syracuse, name form Áthanis in Ath. 3,98d and Plut. Timol. 23,6; Athánas in Diod. Sic. 15,94,4; Áthenis in Theopomp. FGrH 115 F 194. He took part in the expedition of Dion to Sicily and was together with Heraclides and Archelaus of Dyme prostátēs tês póleōs (‘Director of the City’) in Syracuse in 356.
A. continued the work of Philistus (FGrH 556), which reached as far as 363/2, and described in 13 books the further destinies of the younger Dionysius, the events around Dion as well as the history of Timoleon at least until his resi…