Library of History, Volume IX: Books 18-19.65 (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Diodorus Siculus

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ISBN 10: 0674994159 ISBN 13: 9780674994157

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1947

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Library of history: v. 09 (books 18-19.65) editado por Loeb/HUP

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Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek author. The work is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander s death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Books 1 5 and 11 20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.

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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 8020 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 IV (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XIXX (Greek history 480302 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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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1947
• ISBN 10: 0674994159
• ISBN 13: 9780674994157
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432