Library of History, Volume VIII: Books 16.66-17

by Diodorus Siculus, C. Bradford Welles

Overview

Remains of a universal chronicle.

Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), 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 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have complete Books 1–5 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books 11–20 (Greek history 480–302 BC); 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674994645
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1963
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #422
Edition description:	4th printing/1st pub.1963
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Charles Bradford Welles (1901–1969) was Professor of Ancient History and Curator of Papyri at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Library Of History

Book XVI.66-95

Book XVII

Addenda

Index

Maps

Sicily

Greece

Alexander's Conquests