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Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Agyrium in Sicily-hence, "Diodorus Siculus"-was the author of the Bibliotheke, a "universal history" in forty books. It covers the story of the human race from Creation to the times of Diodorus in the late Roman Republic. Not counting the mythological section of the Bibliotheke (which treats the period before the ...
Diodori Bibliotheca Historica, Vol 4-5. Diodorus Siculus. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. Kurt Theodor Fischer. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1903-1906. Keyboarding. Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
Jan 18, 2012 · Diodorus Siculus, the 1st century BCE historian, took great pride in precision of description but, even so, could not refrain from adding his own personal views and interpretations of historical events and persons. In the following passage, Diodorus describes the reign of King Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BCE) with a focus on the role `fortune ...
Dec 15, 1995 · DIODORUS SICULUS, Greek historian from Agyrium in Sicily, hence called Siculus (the Sicilian). He came to Rome in the middle of the first century B.C.E. and there wrote his Bibliotheca Historica , a universal history in forty books (only 1-5, largely legendary early history, and 11-20, covering 480-301 B.C.E., survive), from the origins to the age of Caesar.
Jan 1, 2010 · Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great—the Bibliotheke , or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90–30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have disdained Diodorus as a spectacularly unintelligent copyist who only reproduced, and often mangled, the works of earlier historians. Arguing for a thorough critical reappraisal of Diodorus as ...
Jul 14, 2014 · Diodorus Siculus and the First Century. Kenneth S. Sacks. Princeton University Press, Jul 14, 2014 - History - 256 pages. Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly ...
