Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes..
He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.
He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully.
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. 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.
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca
