The Loeb Classical Library: Library of History, Volume VI : Books 14–15.19

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The Loeb Classical Library: Library of History, Volume VI : Books 14–15.19Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 8020 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 Alexanders death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have complete Books 15 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books 1120 (Greek history 480302 BC); and fragments of the rest.

represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity

ερωμένη και έμπιστή τους

Please note that all text is in Greek - there is no English text in this book

as most students are only familiar with Cicero's speeches and letters

critical introduction

αποτέλεσμα έρευνας που βασίστηκε σε αδημοσίευτα έγγραφα

from 170 BC to his own time

and profound to the ironic

Dialogues of the Gods (a “reductio ad absurdum” of traditional mythology)

life in the countryside

and to the reception and translation of the epic in later periods

it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes'