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Library of History, Volume II

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Library of History, Volume II by Diodorus Siculus is a significant classical work compiling world history from mythical times through to the death of Alexander the Great. This volume covers Greek history between 480 and 302 BCE, offering detailed accounts based on sources now lost to time.
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Ideal for readers interested in ancient history, classical studies, and those seeking primary historical texts from the Hellenistic period.

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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.

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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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