Diodorus of Sicily
Author : Diodorus (Siculus)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1933
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ISBN : 9780674993075
Author : Diodorus (Siculus)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1933
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ISBN : 9780674993075
Author : Diodorus (Siculus.)
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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Author : Anne Burton
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Egypt
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Author : D. Siculus
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 5872041667
The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian, in fifteen books
Author : Charles Edward Muntz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190498722
Sumario: Chapter 1 Diodorus, Quellenforschung, and Beyond - Chapter 2 Organizing the World Chapter - 3 The Origins of Civilization - Chapter 4 Mythical History - Chapter 5 The Deified Culture-bringers - Chapter 6 Kings, Kingship, and Rome - Chapter 7 The Roman Civil Wars and the Bibliotheke - Bibliography.
Author : Diodore de Sicile
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412835909
Diodorus Siculus, a prolific Greek historian of the first century B.C., wrote a detailed account of ancient Egypt for his contemporaries. Even then, Egyptian civilization was ancient, stretching back to eras far more remote to him than Greek civilization is to us. Egypt was a land of mystery to the Greeks. Its pyramids were inexplicable, its writings undecipherable, its religion unfathomable. Its strange laws and stranger customs, such as mummification, were perplexing. The very land itself was mysterious: no one knew the source of the Nile or why it overflowed its banks each year with never a drop of rain. The history and mysteries of Egypt were the sole subject of the Book I of the Library of History, Diodorus' encyclopedic attempt to gather all the historical knowledge of the world into one vast book. The Antiquities of Egypt is the first translation of Diodorus' treatise prepared especially for the general reader but it will appeal to a wide range of scholars and specialists as well. The only other English version in print is a literal accompaniment to the edited Greek text, published over fifty years ago. This new translation is accurate and easy to read, while the notes and appendices amplify and elucidate the text setting the narrative in historical and cultural perspective for the nonspecialist. The illustrations add a graphic support to the text. Students and teachers of ancient history, Egyptology, archeology, and anthropology will find Antiquities of Egypt both accessible and valuable. Specialists in literature, mythology, and comparative religion will find it absorbing and useful introduction to early source material in their fields of study. Edwin Murphy is an independent scholar specializing in ancient and medieval history. He is employed in the Treasury Department, Washington D.C. Murphy has also translated Book II of Diodorus' Library of History, The Antiquities of Asia, also published by Transaction.
Author : Diodorus (Siculus)
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1933
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292779070
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 he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.
Author : Diodorus (Siculus.)
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1814
Category : History, Ancient
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Author : Erik Hornung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801438479
The study of Egypt as the fount of all wisdom and stronghold of hermetic lore, already strong in antiquity, Hornung (Egyptology, U. of Basel) calls Egyptosophy. Though it was soundly rebuffed by Egyptology, based on conventional science and history, he thinks its continuing impact on western culture deserves scholarly attention. He reviews the various occult traditions and their expression during various eras. The original Esoterische Agypten was published by C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, in 1999, and translated by David Lorton, who has also translated Hornung's earlier books for Cornell. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.