Remains of a Universal Chronography. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian from Agyrium in Sicily (c. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of universal history, known as the Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, Greek and non-Greek, up to the Trojan War; history up to the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC); history up to 54 BC. Of these, we have the complete Books 1–5 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books 11–20 (Greek history 480–302 BC); and fragments of the rest. He was a non-critical compiler, but he used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details not recorded elsewhere, as well as for providing evidence of works that have been lost, mainly writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaios. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- -
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 463
- Release Date
- 01/01/1957
- Publication Date
- 1957
- Dimensions
- 11.4x17 cm
- Language
- English
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- -
- Bilingual edition
- No
- ISBN-13
- 9780674994508
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