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Medieval illuminated manuscript of the Bibliotheca historica, Latinized by Poggio Bracciolini (Malatestiana Library, ms. S.XXII.1). Bibliotheca historica (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική, lit. ' Historical Library ') is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus. It consisted of forty books, which were divided into ...
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Ancient Greek: Διόδωρος, romanized: Diódōros; fl. 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian from Sicily. He is known for writing the monumental universal history Bibliotheca historica, in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact, [1] between 60 and 30 BC. The history is arranged in ...
[1] [2] [3] The details known about Callon's life appear in the Bibliotheca Historica written by Diodorus Siculus. [4] [5] Assigned female at birth, he is described by Diodorus Siculus as an orphan, who was forced to marry when he "came of age" and lived with his husband for two years. [1]
Bibliotheca (Apollodorus), a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends; Bibliotheca historica, a first century BC work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus; Bibliotheca, a 9th-century work of Byzantine Patriarch Photius; Bibliotheca, a 2014 version of the Bible without chapter and verse numbers
Diodorus Siculus' ethnography of Egypt (Bibliotheca historica, Book I) represents by far the largest number of fragments. Diodorus mostly paraphrases Hecataeus, thus it is difficult to extract Hecataeus' actual writings (as in Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum). Diodorus (ii.47.1-2) and Apollonius of Rhodes tell of ...
Bibliotheca historica (Library of world history), written in Greek by the Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, from which Book 17 relates the conquests of Alexander, based almost entirely on Cleitarchus and Hieronymus of Cardia. It is the oldest surviving Greek source (1st century BC).
Ictis, or Iktin, is or was an island described as a tin trading centre in the Bibliotheca historica of the Sicilian-Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC. While Ictis is widely accepted to have been an island somewhere off the southern coast of what is now England, scholars continue to debate its precise location.
Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker ...