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The Lesser Prooemia of Diodorus Siculus

Hermes 110 (4):434-443 (1982)

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A New History of Libararies and Books in the Hellenistic Period.S. Johnstone - 2014 - Classical Antiquity 33 (2):347-393.details Discarding the unreliable late evidence for the Library of Alexandria in the Hellenistic period, I establish a new history of libraries and books on more secure primary sources. Beginning in the second century BCE at various places across the eastern Mediterranean, rich, powerful men began to sponsor collections of books. These new public displays of aristocratic and royal munificence so transcended earlier holdings of books—which had been small, vocational, and private—that in an important sense they constitute the invention of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
How many books did Diodorus Siculus originally intend to write?Catherine Rubincam - 1998 - Classical Quarterly 48 (01):229-.details Diodorus Siculus was notoriously inconsistent in his statements about the terminal date of his survey of history, the Bibliotheca Historica. In the ‘table of contents’ which he included in the general preface to the whole work, written apparently when he was preparing his manuscript for publication , he specifically names the year 60/59 as the last year of his narrative. Elsewhere, however, he not only gives a figure for the period of history encompassed by his work which would bring it (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ Narratives: Writing Social Commentary in the Bibliothēkē.Peter Morton - 2018 - Classical Quarterly 68 (2):534-551.details Diodorus Siculus has not enjoyed a positive reputation among historians of antiquity. Since the nineteenth century hisBibliothēkēhas been dismissed as a derivative work produced by an incompetent compiler, useful often only in so far as one can mine his text for lost and, evidently, far superior works of history. Diodorus’ own input into theBibliothēkēhas been dismissed as the clumsy intervention of ‘a small man with pretensions’. In one of the sharpest expressions of the traditional view, Diodorus is not a historian (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
How many books did Diodorus Siculus originally intend to write?Catherine Rubincam - 1998 - Classical Quarterly 48 (1):229-233.details Diodorus Siculus was notoriously inconsistent in his statements about the terminal date of his survey of history, the Bibliotheca Historica. In the ‘table of contents’ which he included in the general preface to the whole work, written apparently when he was preparing his manuscript for publication, he specifically names the year 60/59 as the last year of his narrative. Elsewhere, however, he not only gives a figure for the period of history encompassed by his work which would bring it down (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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