Library of History: Volume XI
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780674994508
- ISBN10 0674994507
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 463
- Any Edició 1980
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Tapa dura
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Clàssics Grecs BilingüesLibrary of History: Volume XI
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Detalls del llibre
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 I-V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI-XX (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.