Dius
Δῖος
(Δῖος), the author of a history of the Phoenicians, of which a fragment concerning Solomon and Hiram is preserved in Josephus. (c. Apion. 1.17.) There was also a Pythagorean philosopher Dius, who wrote a work περὶ καλλονῆς, of which two fragments are preserved in Stobaeus. (Tit. 65.16, 17.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.