Library of History: Books 16.66-17 (Loeb Classical Library, Band 422) - Hardcover

Diodorus, Siculus

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ISBN 10: 0674994647 ISBN 13: 9780674994645

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1939

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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80?20 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 I?V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI?XX (Greek history 480?302 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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Charles Bradford Welles (1901-1969) was Professor of Ancient History and Curator of Papyri at Yale University.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1939
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674994647
• ISBN 13: 9780674994645
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 490
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