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.
- ISBN10 0674994507
- ISBN13 9780674994508
- Publish Date 31 January 1957 (first published 31 January 1933)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496
- Language English