Library of History, Volume XII

Fragments of Books 33-40
Erscheinungsjahr 1967
ISBN: 978-0-674-99465-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 423, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 168 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: Loeb Classical Library

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 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 Alexander's death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have complete Books 1–5 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books 11–20 (Greek history 480–302 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. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes.

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Weitere Mitwirkende

Walton, Francis R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Walton, Francis R.
Francis Redding Walton (1910–1989) taught at Florida State University and the University of Chicago and was Director of the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.