A new English translation of Diodorus' history of the Greek world during the Periclean era, and an iconoclastic rea
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Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the
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Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek hi
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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Librar
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Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about
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An investigation of moral-didactic techniques and messages in ancient Greek historiography Why did human beings first
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Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the anci
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T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurniu
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