Diodorus of Sicily Books XVI. 66 - XVII / with an Engl. transl. by C. Bradford Welles  -  C.Bradford Welles (Translator)

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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 a...
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Uitgever: Harvard University Press 496 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674994647 ISBN-13: 9780674994645