Verfasst von:	Diodorus <Siculus> [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Bibliotheke historike
Mitwirkende:	Harding, Phillip [ÜbersetzerIn]
Werktitel:	Bibliotheca historica
Verf.angabe:	Diodoros of Sicily ; translated with introduction and notes by Phillip Harding, University of British Columbia
Verlagsort:	New York
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2021-
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:	v. 1. Books 14-15, The Greek world in the fourth century BC from the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon)
	"Diodoros of Sicily lived and worked in the last century before Christ (c.90-c.30 or c.20). He witnessed the rise of Rome to supremacy, the eclipse of Greek empires in the east, and the unification of the inhabited world (the oikoumene) under Roman dominance, especially through the conquests of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. At some point in his life Diodoros conceived the ambition of writing a history of the world from its mythical beginnings to his own day. For that purpose he read and studied the works of his great predecessors in historiography, Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ephoros, Theopompos, Polybios, Poseidonios and many lesser known authors. Over thirty years of labour he produced an encyclopedic compendium of world history in 40 books, which he called the Library (Bibliotheke). Writing in the dying days of Greek historiography, he was uniquely positioned to survey and summarise the continuum of history"--
Dokumenttyp:	Quelle
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Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Diodorus, Siculus: Bibliotheke historike. - New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021]- |(DLC)2021012622
Sach-SW:	HISTORY / Ancient / General
K10plus-PPN:	1754906060
Verknüpfungen:	→ Bände
	Universitätsbibliothek
Signatur:	siehe Bände
	Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik
Bibliothek/Idn:	AG / 58841343,2