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Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike

Translation, with Introduction and Notes

By: Phillip Harding

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Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike

Translation, with Introduction and Notes

By: Phillip Harding

A fresh translation of Diodoros' account of a crucial period of Greek history, with extensive notes and a substantial Introduction.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108499279

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Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)

By: Diodorus (Siculus.),Peter Green

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Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)

By: Diodorus (Siculus.),Peter Green

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 a minor but far from idiotic historian himself, Peter Green published Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1, a fresh translation, with extensive commentary, of the portion of Diodorus’s history dealing with the period 480–431 BCE, the so-called “Golden Age” of Athens. This is the only recent modern English translation of the Bibliotheke in existence. In the present volume—the first of two covering Diodorus’s text up to the death of Alexander—Green expands his translation of Diodorus up to Athens’ defeat after the Peloponnesian War. In contrast to the full scholarly apparatus in his earlier volume (the translation of which is incorporated) the present volume’s purpose is to give students, teachers, and general readers an accessible version of Diodorus’s history. Its introduction and notes are especially designed for this audience and provide an up-to-date overview of fifth-century Greece during the years that saw the unparalleled flowering of drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts for which Greece still remains famous.

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University of Texas Press

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0292721250

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The Library, Books 16-20

Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors

By: Diodorus Siculus

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The Library, Books 16-20

Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors

By: Diodorus Siculus

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from mythological times to 60 BCE, and fifteen of The Library's forty books survive. This new translation by Robin Waterfield of books 16-20 covers a vital period in European history. Book 16 is devoted to Philip, and without it the career of this great king would be far more obscure to us. Book 17 is the earliest surviving account by over a hundred years of the world-changing eastern conquests of Alexander the Great, Philip's son. Books 18-20 constitute virtually our sole source of information on the twenty turbulent years following Alexander's death and on the violent path followed by Agathocles of Syracuse. There are fascinating snippets of history from elsewhere too - from Republican Rome, the Cimmerian Bosporus, and elsewhere. Despite his obvious importance, Diodorus is a neglected historian. This is the first English translation of any of these books in over fifty years. The introduction places Diodorus in his context in first-century-BCE Rome, describes and discusses the kind of history he was intending to write, and assesses his strengths and weaknesses as a historian. With extensive explanatory notes on this gripping and sensational period of history, the book serves as a unique resource for historians and students.

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Oxford University Press

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0191078069

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9780191078064

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)

By: Diodorus (Siculus.),Peter Green

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By: Diodorus (Siculus.),Peter Green

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Book's by Siculus Diodorus

Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike

Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

The Library, Books 16-20

The Library, Books 16-20

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

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