Athanas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθάνας, fl.
4th century BCE) of Syracuse was a historical writer who wrote a work on Sicily and Dion of Syracuse that continued the history of Philistus, and was quoted respectfully by the historians Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.
[1][2][3][4][5] He is probably the same as the writer named "Athanis" mentioned by the grammarian Athenaeus who also wrote a work on Sicily.
[6][7] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.