{"product_id":"diodorus-siculus-books-11-12-37-1","title":"Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2007 - A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57260195676504,"sku":"9780292712775","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780292712775.jpg?v=1778379372","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/diodorus-siculus-books-11-12-37-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}