Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34 (Loeb Classical Library No. 279)

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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of worldwide history, known as Library of History, in three portions: 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 now have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the remaining. He used to be an uncritical compiler, but used just right sources and reproduced them faithfully. He’s valuable for main points unrecorded in different places, 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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