Diodorus of Sicily: III, Books IV (Cont) 59-VIII by Diodorus Siculus; Oldfather, C. H. (Translator)

Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Harvard Univ Pr, 1939. 433 Pages. Clean and unmarked. Green cloth boards. No Dust Jacket. Loeb #340. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" Tall.

Signs of previous ownership (cigar smoker). DJ with wear on sping, and edges. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Pages clean and bright. 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 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I-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. 1993. T6.

Hardback. Very Good.

Harvard University Press, 1989 Book. As New. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. As new. c/w slightly rubbed dust jacket..

Loeb Classical Library, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Loeb Classical Library, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Harvard University Press, 2000 12mo (17 cm), VI, 433 pp, 2 folding maps. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "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." (publisher's synopsis)

London: Harvard University Press, 1970. English Text. London, 1970; bound, pp. 448, cm 11x17. (Loeb Classical Library).

Loeb Classical Library, 1939. Hardcover. New. 448 pages. 6.75x4.75x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. Diodorus "Library of History," written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek author. The work is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander s death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Books 1 5 and 11 20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.