Library of History, Volume VII : Books 15. 20-16. 65 by Diodorus Siculus ...

Name: Library of History, Volume VII : Books 15. 20-16. 65 by Diodorus Siculus ...
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Library of History, Volume VIIBooks 15.2016.65\nAuthor(s): Diodorus Siculus, Charles Lawton Sherman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674994287, 978-0674994287\nSynopsis\nRemains of a universal chronicle.\n\nDiodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 8020 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 Alexanders death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have complete Books 15 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books [tel]Greek history [tel] 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.\n\n The Loeb Classical L.