Search Books

Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume III, Books 4.59-8. (Loeb Classical Library No. 340)

Author Diodorus Siculus
Publisher Harvard University Press
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
24.70 26.00 USD
🛒 Buy New on Amazon 🇺🇸 🏷 Buy Used — $21.81

✓ Usually ships in 24 hours

Share:
Book Details
ISBN / ASIN0674993756
ISBN-139780674993754
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,456,674
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

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.