Diodorus Siculus: Library Of History -

Diodorus organized his massive project into three distinct chronological and thematic sections:

: The remaining books (6–10 and 21–40) exist only in varying degrees of fragmentary form. Historical Significance and Sources Diodorus Siculus: Library of History

The standard scholarly edition is the , which consists of 12 volumes with the original Greek text facing an English translation. Diodorus organized his massive project into three distinct

The (Greek: Bibliotheke historike ) is a monumental "universal history" composed by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus between 60 and 30 BCE. Spanning forty books, it was intended to cover the history of the entire world from mythical origins to Diodorus's own time. Structure of the Work Spanning forty books, it was intended to cover

: Books 1–5 (Early myths and geography) and Books 11–20 (Greek and Mediterranean history from 480 to 302 BCE).

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