Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus was a 1st century BC Greek historian, born in Agyrium, Sicily. He travelled in Asia and Europe, and lived in Rome, collecting for 30 years the materials for his immense Bibliotheke Historike, a history of the world in 40 books, from the creation to the Gallic wars of Caesar. The first five books are exant entire; the next five lost; the next ten complete; and of the remainder only fragments remain..

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