Dositheus
Δωσίθεος
(Δωσίθεος), a Greek historian, of whom four works are mentioned: 1. Σικελικά, of which the third book is quoted. (Plut. Parall. Min. 19.) 2. Λυδιακά, of which likewise the third book is quoted. (Plut. Parall. Min. 30.) 3. Ἰταλικά (ibid. 33, 34, 37, 40), and 4. Πελοπίδαι. (Ibid. 33; Steph. Byz. s. v. Δώριον.) But nothing further is known about him.
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.