Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58

by Diodorus Siculus, C. H. Oldfather (Translator)

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:	9780674993341
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1935
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #303
Edition description:	6th printing/1st pub.1935
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Charles Henry Oldfather (1887–1954) was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Library Of History

Book II (continued)

Book III

Book IV. 1-58

Index Of Proper Names

Maps

Asia

Aegyptus-Ethiopia