The MouseionDiodorus SiculusHistorical Library
Historical LibraryΒιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική (Books 11-17)
By Diodorus Siculus.
- Kind of writing
- History
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st c. BC
- Length
- 419,079 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 68% common words
- In the library
- 3 Greek texts, 0 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textDiodorus of Sicily. Vols. 4-8 (partial). C. H. Oldfather, C. H.; Sherman, Charles L.; Welles, C. Bradford; editors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1946-1963 (printing).
- Greek textDiodorus Siculus. Diodori Bibliotheca Historica. Vols. 1-2 (partial). Bekker, Immanuel; Dindorf, Ludwig; Vogel, Friedrich; editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1888-1890.
- Greek textDiodorus Siculus. Diodori Bibliotheca Historica. Vols. 4-5 (partial). Bekker, Immanuel; Dindorf, Ludwig; Fischer, Curt Theodor; editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903-1906.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
Homer's city of Agamemnon, and the graves Schliemann opened in 1876Mycenae, rich in goldHomer called Mycenae "rich in gold".How archaeologists turn soil, graves and broken pots into dates, from Thucydides to tree ringsReading the layersIn the winter of 426 BC the Athenians dug up every grave on the sacred island of Delos and carried the bones across the strait.