Library of History, Volume VI: Books 14-15.19
(Loeb Classical Library; 399)
- ISBN: 9780674994393
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2001
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Loeb Classical Library
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 400
- Idiomas: Griego moderno; Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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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); and history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books 1–5 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks); Books 11–20 (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.
