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

Silenus was probably a native of Caleacte in northern Sicily. Along with Sosylus of Lacedaemon he accompanied Hannibal during his campaign, and therefore was able to provide a contemporaneous, first-hand account. Lucius Coelius Antipater largely based much of his Latin history of the Second Punic War on Silenus; Polybius, Livy, and Cicero also referenced him.

References

1. Meister, Klaus (October 2006). "Silenus". BrillOnline Reference Works. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1112830. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
2. Smith, Reginald Bosworth (1878). Carthage and the Carthaginians. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 272.
3. Morgan, Llewelyn. "Dunno much about γεωγραφία…". Lugubelinus. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

• Hellenistic-era historians
• Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
• Historians from Magna Graecia
• People of the Second Punic War