Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 BC-the Alternative Version

by Diodorus Siculus

2007 - A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book

Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712774
• ISBN13: 9780292712775
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"