Library of History, Volume II
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Library of History, Volume II
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Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek author. The work is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander s death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Books 1 5 and 11 20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest.
He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes.
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780674993341
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 January 1935
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: 2 maps, index
Contributors:
- Translated by C. H. Oldfather
- Translated by C. H. Oldfather
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 108.0mm
Height: 162.0mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 560
About the Author
Charles Henry Oldfather (1887–1954) was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nebraska.
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