Diodorus Siculus - Couverture rigide

Diodorus Siculus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674994299 ISBN 13 : 9780674994294

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1954

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Russel Mortimer Geer (1894-1984) was W. R. Irby Professor of Classical Languages at Tulane University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1954
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674994299
• ISBN 13: 9780674994294
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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