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A new English translation of Diodorus' history of the Greek world during the Periclean era, and an iconoclastic reappraisal of this undervalued historian by one of the world's leading Classicists.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
    • Diodorus Siculus: Life and Background
    • The Bibliotheke I: Composition, Antecedents, Influences
    • The Bibliotheke II: Aims, Achievements, Criticism
    • The Persian Wars and the Pentekontaetia
  • Translation and Commentary, Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheke Book 11: 480-451 B.C.E.
  • Translation and Commentary, Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheke Book 12.1.1-12.37.1: 450-431 B.C.E.
  • Appendix A: The Terminal Date of the Bibliotheke
  • Appendix B: Athenian Losses in the Egyptian Campaign
  • Maps 1-8
  • Chronological Table
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292712775, 978-0292712775
      ISBN10: 0292712774
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A new English translation of Diodorus' history of the Greek world during the Periclean era, and an iconoclastic reappraisal of this undervalued historian by one of the world's leading Classicists.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Abbreviations
      • Introduction
        • Diodorus Siculus: Life and Background
        • The Bibliotheke I: Composition, Antecedents, Influences
        • The Bibliotheke II: Aims, Achievements, Criticism
        • The Persian Wars and the Pentekontaetia
      • Translation and Commentary, Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheke Book 11: 480-451 B.C.E.
      • Translation and Commentary, Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheke Book 12.1.1-12.37.1: 450-431 B.C.E.
      • Appendix A: The Terminal Date of the Bibliotheke
      • Appendix B: Athenian Losses in the Egyptian Campaign
      • Maps 1-8
      • Chronological Table
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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