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Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.

Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 BC―the Alternative Version

History

Diodorus, Siculus

Ancient Civilizations

University of Texas Press

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.

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34 (Loeb Classical Library No. 279)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harvard University Press

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume II, Books 2.35-4.58 (Loeb Classical Library No. 303)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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.

Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume III, Books 4.59-8. (Loeb Classical Library No. 340)

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume IV, Books 9-12.40 (Loeb Classical Library No. 375)

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume IX, Books 18-19.65 (Loeb Classical Library No. 377)

Religion & Spirituality

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VII, Books 15.20-16.65 (Loeb Classical Library No. 389)

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume X, Books 19.66-20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 390)

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VI, Books 14-15.19 (Loeb Classical Library No. 399)

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume XI, Books 21-32 (Loeb Classical Library No. 409)

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