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Book SynopsisLiving in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a histo
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Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION: The Argument, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE. Prooemia, pg. 9*CHAPTER TWO. Themes in Historical Causality, pg. 23*CHAPTER THREE. Culture's Progress, pg. 55*CHAPTER FOUR. Aspects of History Writing, pg. 83*CHAPTER FIVE. Diodorus on Rome, pg. 117*CHAPTER SIX. Diodorus in the World of Caesar and Octavian, pg. 160*CONCLUSIONS, pg. 204*APPENDIX ONE. Sicilian Enfranchisement, pg. 207*APPENDIX TWO. Posidonius on Italian Knights, pg. 211*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 213*INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN DIODORUS, pg. 231*INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN OTHER AUTHORS, pg. 236*INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT GREEK TERMS, pg. 239*GENERAL INDEX, pg. 240
