Library of History: Bk. IV,59-VIII, v. 3
Siculus Diodorus
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New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 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. Seller Inventory # B9780674993754
Bibliographic Details
Title: Library of History: Bk. IV,59-VIII, v. 3
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
About this title
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.
Charles Henry Oldfather (1887–1954) was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nebraska.
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