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Diodorus Siculus
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Life
According to his own work, he was born in Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira).Diod. History 1.4.4. With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about his life and doings beyond his written works. Only Jerome, in his Chronicon under the "year of Abraham 1968" (49 BC), writes, "Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious". However, his English translator, Charles Henry Oldfather, remarks on the "striking coincidence"BOOK, Diodorus of Sicily In Twelve Volumes, Charles Henry Oldfather, Charles Henry, Oldfather, 1977, Introduction, that one of only two known Greek inscriptions from Agyrium (Inscriptiones Graecae XIV, 588) is the tombstone of one "Diodorus, the son of Apollonius".BOOK, Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation by Ctesias, Jan P., Stronk, 2010, 60, The final work attributed to him is from 21 BC.WEB,weblink Diodorus Siculus - Greek historian, July 13, 2023,Work
(File:Bibliotheca historica.tif|thumb|Bibliotheca historica, 1746)Diodorus' universal history, which he named Bibliotheca historica (, "Historical Library"), was immense and consisted of 40 books, of which 1â5 and 11â20 survive:ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink Diodorus Siculus, Encyclopædia Britannica, 4 April 2018, fragments of the lost books are preserved in Photius and the Excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.It was divided into three sections. The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt (book I), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia (II), of North Africa (III), and of Greece and Europe (IVâVI).In the next section (books VII–XVII), he recounts the history of the world from the Trojan War down to the death of Alexander the Great. The last section (books XVII to the end) concerns the historical events from the successors of Alexander down to either 60 BC or the beginning of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. (The end has been lost, so it is unclear whether Diodorus reached the beginning of the Gallic War as he promised at the beginning of his work or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labours, he stopped short at 60 BC.) He selected the name "Bibliotheca" in acknowledgment that he was assembling a composite work from many sources. Identified authors on whose works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius, and Posidonius.See also
Citations
{{Reflist}}General and cited references
- BOOK, Ambaglio, Dino, Franca, Landucci Gattinoni, Luigi, Bravi, Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: commento storico: introduzione generale. Storia. Ricerche, Milano, V&P, 2008, x, 145, 9788834315842, it,
- BOOK, Aspects of Greek History 750-323 BC: A Source-based Approach, Terry, Buckley, Routledge, 1996, 0-415-09958-7, London,
- BOOK, Diodorus Siculus, Library of History: Loeb Classical Library, Oldfather, C. H., Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 1935,
- BOOK, The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian in Fifteen Books to which are added the Fragments of Diodorus, Diodorus Siculus, G. Booth, H. Valesius, I. Rhodomannus, F. Ursinus, 1814, London, J. Davis,weblink Google Books,
- BOOK, Diodori Siculi, Bibliothecae Historicae Libri Qui Supersunt: Nova Editio, Peter Wesseling, L. Rhodoman, G. Heyn, N. Eyring, Argentorati, 1798, Societas Bipontina, grc, la,weblink Internet Archive,
- BOOK, Stephen, Usher, The Historians of Greece and Rome, London, 1969, Hamish Hamilton, 0-2410-1527-8,
Further reading
{{Library resources box |by=yes |onlinebooks=yes |others=yes |about=yes |label=Diodorus Siculus |viaf= |lccn= |lcheading= |wikititle= }}- Braithwaite-Westoby, Kara. "Diodorus and the Alleged Revolts of 374â373 BCE," Classical Philology 115, no. 2 (April 2020): 265â270.
- Clarke, Katherine. 1999. "Universal perspectives in Historiography." In The Limits of Historiography: Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts. Edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, 249â279. Mnemosyne. Supplementum 191. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
- Hammond, Nicholas G. L. 1998. "Portents, Prophecies, and Dreams in Diodorus' Books 14â17." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 39.4: 407â428.
- Hau, Lisa Irene, Alexander Meeus, and Brian Sheridan (eds.). 2018. Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke. Peeters: Leuven.
- McQueen, Earl I. 1995. Diodorus Siculus. The Reign of Philip II: The Greek and Macedonian Narrative from Book XVI. A Companion. London: Bristol Classical Press.
- Muntz, Charles E. 2017. Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Pfuntner, Laura. 2015. "Reading Diodorus through Photius: The Case of the Sicilian Slave Revolts." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 55.1: 256â272.
- Rubincam, Catherine. 1987. "The Organization and Composition of Diodorus' Bibliotheke." Ãchos du monde classique (= Classical views) 31:313â328.
- Sacks, Kenneth S. 1990. Diodorus Siculus and the First Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
- Sinclair, Robert K. 1963. "Diodorus Siculus and the Writing of History." Proceedings of the African Classical Association 6:36â45.
- Stronk, Jan P. 2017. Semiramis' Legacy. The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
- Sulimani, Iris. 2008. "Diodorus' Source-Citations: A Turn in the Attitude of Ancient Authors Towards their Predecessors?" Athenaeum 96.2: 535â567.
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- WEB,weblink The Library of History, grc, LacusCurtius, Books 6â10 only, 6 September 2017,
- WEB,weblink Diodorus Siculus, grc, Library, Perseus Digital Library, Books 9â17 only, 6 September 2017,
- English translations
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- WEB,weblink The Library of History, LacusCurtius, Diodorus Siculus, C. H. Oldfather, C. L. Sherman, C. Bradford Welles, Russel M. Geer, F. R. Walton, Books 1â32 only, 25 June 2017,
- WEB,weblink Diodorus Siculus, Library, C. H. Oldfather, Books 4â6 only, Theoi E-Texts Library, 8 October 2008,
- WEB,weblink Library, Diodorus Siculus, C. H. Oldfather, Books 9â17 only, Perseus Digital Library, 25 June 2017,
- WEB,weblink Historical Library, Attalus.org, Diodorus Siculus, Andrew Smith, Books 33â40 only, 7 February 2014,
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