Silenus Calatinus (Σιληνός) was aSicilianGreek historian ofMagna Graecia of the 2nd century BC^[1] who wrote a history in Greek ofHannibal's campaign in Italy from 218 to 204 BC. His work is known only from fragments and borrowings by other authors.^[2]

Silenus was probably a native ofCaleacte in northern Sicily. Along withSosylus of Lacedaemon he accompanied Hannibal during his campaign, and therefore was able to provide a contemporaneous, first-hand account.^[3]Lucius Coelius Antipater largely based much of his Latin history of theSecond Punic War on Silenus;Polybius,Livy, andCicero also referenced him.

• Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
• Historians from Magna Graecia
• People of the Second Punic War
• 2nd-century BC Greek historians

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