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Diodorus of Sicily ; with an English translation by C.H. Oldfather

(The Loeb classical library, 279, 303, 340, 375, 377, 384, 389-390, 399, 422 . Diodorus of Sicily ; 1-10)

Harvard University Press, 1993-

  • bks. I-II.34
  • bks. II.35-IV.58
  • bks. IV.59-VIII
  • bks. IX-XII.40
  • bks. XII.41-XIII
  • bks. XIV-XV.19
  • bks. XV.20-XVI.65
  • bks. XVI.66-XVII
  • bks. XVIII-XIX.65
  • bks. XIX.66-XX

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Books XV.20-XVI.65 / translated by Charles L. Sherman

Books XVI.66-XVII / with an English translation by C. Bradford Welles

Books XVIII-XIX.65, bks. XIX.66-XX / with an English translation by Russel M. Geer

Reprint. First published 1935-1963 under title: Diodorus of Sicily

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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.

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  • NCID
    BA28811499
  • ISBN
    • 0674993071
    • 0674993349
    • 0674993756
    • 0674994132
    • 0674994221
    • 0674994396
    • 0674994280
    • 0674994647
    • 0674994159
    • 0674994299
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    enggrc
  • Original Language Code
    grc
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    v.
  • Size
    17 cm
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