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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodor" title="Diodor – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Diodor" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%B2%E1%8B%AE%E1%8B%B6%E1%88%AE%E1%88%B5_%E1%88%B2%E1%8A%A9%E1%88%89%E1%88%B5" title="ዲዮዶሮስ ሲኩሉስ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ዲዮዶሮስ ሲኩሉስ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A" title="ديودور الصقلي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ديودور الصقلي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_S%C3%ADculo" title="Diodoro Sículo – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Diodoro Sículo" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siciliyal%C4%B1_Diodor" title="Siciliyalı Diodor – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Siciliyalı Diodor" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A1%D1%96%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Дыядор Сіцылійскі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дыядор Сіцылійскі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Диодор Сицилийски – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Диодор Сицилийски" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoros_Sikilia" title="Diodoros Sikilia – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Diodoros Sikilia" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodor_de_Sic%C3%ADlia" title="Diodor de Sicília – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Diodor de Sicília" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diod%C3%B3ros_Sicilsk%C3%BD" title="Diodóros Sicilský – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Diodóros Sicilský" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoru_Siculu" title="Diodoru Siculu – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Diodoru Siculu" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Diodorus Siculus" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodor" title="Diodor – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Diodor" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodor" title="Diodor – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Diodor" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoros" title="Diodoros – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Diodoros" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A3%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%8E%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_S%C3%ADculo" title="Diodoro Sículo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Diodoro Sículo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_Sicilia" title="Diodoro Sicilia – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Diodoro Sicilia" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_Sikulo" title="Diodoro Sikulo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Diodoro Sikulo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C" title="دیودور سیسیلی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیودور سیسیلی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodore_de_Sicile" title="Diodore de Sicile – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Diodore de Sicile" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Diodorus Siculus" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_S%C3%ADculo" title="Diodoro Sículo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Diodoro Sículo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%94%94%EC%98%A4%EB%8F%84%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4_%EC%8B%9C%EC%BC%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4" title="디오도로스 시켈로스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="디오도로스 시켈로스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%AB%D5%B8%D5%A4%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BD_%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB" title="Դիոդորոս Սիկիլիացի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դիոդորոս Սիկիլիացի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodor_Sicilski" title="Diodor Sicilski – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Diodor Sicilski" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoros_Sikolos" title="Diodoros Sikolos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Diodoros Sikolos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADod%C3%B3ros_fr%C3%A1_Sikiley" title="Díodóros frá Sikiley – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Díodóros frá Sikiley" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_Siculo" title="Diodoro Siculo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Diodoro Siculo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1" title="דיודורוס סיקולוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דיודורוס סיקולוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="დიოდორე სიცილიელი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დიოდორე სიცილიელი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Сицилиялык Диодор – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Сицилиялык Диодор" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Diodorus Siculus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic%C4%ABlijas_Diodors" title="Sicīlijas Diodors – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sicīlijas Diodors" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoro_de_Sisilia" title="Diodoro de Sisilia – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Diodoro de Sisilia" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diod%C3%B3rosz_(t%C3%B6rt%C3%A9net%C3%ADr%C3%B3)" title="Diodórosz (történetíró) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Diodórosz (történetíró)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Диодор Сицилиски – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Диодор Сицилиски" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ഡയഡോറസ് സിക്കുലസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഡയഡോറസ് സിക്കുലസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="დიოდორე სიცილიარი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="დიოდორე სიცილიარი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%89" title="ديودور الصقلى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ديودور الصقلى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodorus" title="Diodorus – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Diodorus" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodoros_van_Sicili%C3%AB" title="Diodoros van Sicilië – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Diodoros van Sicilië" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9" title="シケリアのディオドロス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シケリアのディオドロス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1st-century BC Greek historian</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Diodorus" redirects here. 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padding-right:0.65em;">Native name</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><div class="nickname"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc-Grek" style="font-style: normal;">Διόδωρος</span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 1st century BC<br /><a href="/wiki/Agira" title="Agira">Agira</a>, Sicily</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_historica" title="Bibliotheca historica">Bibliotheca historica</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Diodorus Siculus</b> or <b>Diodorus of Sicily</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248666159">.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width:22em}}</style><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:Διόδωρος">Διόδωρος</a></span></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">translit.</a></small> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn"><i>Diódōros</i></i></span>; <abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 1st century BC) was an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a> from <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>. He is known for writing the monumental <a href="/wiki/Universal_history_(genre)" title="Universal history (genre)">universal history</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_historica" title="Bibliotheca historica">Bibliotheca historica</a></i>, in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUsher1969235_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUsher1969235-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> between 60 and 30 BC. The history is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Europe. The second covers the time from the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great" title="Death of Alexander the Great">death of Alexander the Great</a>. The third covers the period to about 60 BC. <i>Bibliotheca</i>, meaning 'library', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diodorus_Siculus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to his own work, he was born in <a href="/wiki/Agira" title="Agira">Agyrium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> (now called Agira).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With one exception, <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">antiquity</a> affords no further information about his life and doings beyond his written works. Only <a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a>, in his <i><a href="/wiki/Chronicon_(Jerome)" title="Chronicon (Jerome)">Chronicon</a></i> under the "year of <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a> 1968" (49 BC), writes, "Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious". However, his <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> translator, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Oldfather" title="Charles Henry Oldfather">Charles Henry Oldfather</a>, remarks on the "striking coincidence"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that one of only two known Greek inscriptions from Agyrium (<i><a href="/wiki/Inscriptiones_Graecae" title="Inscriptiones Graecae">Inscriptiones Graecae</a></i> XIV, 588) is the tombstone of one "Diodorus, the son of Apollonius" (“<i>Διόδωρος ∙ Ἀπολλωνίου</i>”) .<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final work attributed to him is from 21 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diodorus_Siculus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_historica" title="Bibliotheca historica">Bibliotheca historica</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bibliotheca_historica.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bibliotheca_historica.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Bibliotheca_historica.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bibliotheca_historica.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Bibliotheca_historica.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bibliotheca_historica.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Bibliotheca_historica.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4626" data-file-height="7324" /></a><figcaption><i>Bibliotheca historica</i>, 1746</figcaption></figure> <p>Diodorus' <a href="/wiki/Universal_history_(genre)" title="Universal history (genre)">universal history</a>, which he named <i>Bibliotheca historica</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248666159"><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική</span></span>, "Historical Library"), was immense and consisted of 40 books, of which 1–5 and 11–20 survive:<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fragments of the lost books are preserved in <a href="/wiki/Photios_I_of_Constantinople" title="Photios I of Constantinople">Photius</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Constantinian_Excerpts" title="Constantinian Excerpts">Excerpts</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine Porphyrogenitus</a>. </p><p>It was divided into three sections. The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Hellenic</a> and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Ancient Egypt</a> (book I), of <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scythia" title="Scythia">Scythia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a> (II), of <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> (III), and of <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and Europe (IV–VI). </p><p>In the next section (books VII–XVII), he recounts the history of the world from the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> down to the <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great" title="Death of Alexander the Great">death of Alexander the Great</a>. The last section (books XVII to the end) concerns the historical events from the <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">successors of Alexander</a> down to either 60 BC or the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gallic_Wars" title="Gallic Wars">Gallic Wars</a>. (The end has been lost, so it is unclear whether Diodorus reached the beginning of the Gallic War as he promised at the beginning of his work or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labours, he stopped short at 60 BC.) He selected the name "Bibliotheca" in acknowledgment that he was assembling a composite work from many sources. Identified authors on whose works he drew include <a href="/wiki/Hecataeus_of_Abdera" title="Hecataeus of Abdera">Hecataeus of Abdera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ctesias_of_Cnidus" class="mw-redirect" title="Ctesias of Cnidus">Ctesias of Cnidus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ephorus" title="Ephorus">Ephorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theopompus" title="Theopompus">Theopompus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_of_Cardia" title="Hieronymus of Cardia">Hieronymus of Cardia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duris_of_Samos" title="Duris of Samos">Duris of Samos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diyllus" title="Diyllus">Diyllus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philistus" title="Philistus">Philistus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timaeus_(historian)" title="Timaeus (historian)">Timaeus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Posidonius" title="Posidonius">Posidonius</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diodorus_Siculus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acadine" title="Acadine">Acadine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callon_of_Epidaurus" title="Callon of Epidaurus">Callon of Epidaurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diophantus_of_Abae" title="Diophantus of Abae">Diophantus of Abae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenic_historiography" title="Hellenic historiography">Hellenic historiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_recurrence" title="Historic recurrence">Historic recurrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diodorus_Siculus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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Storia. Ricerche</i> (in Italian). Milano: V&P. pp. x, 145. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788834315842" title="Special:BookSources/9788834315842"><bdi>9788834315842</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diodoro+Siculo%3A+Biblioteca+storica%3A+commento+storico%3A+introduzione+generale.+Storia.+Ricerche&rft.place=Milano&rft.pages=x%2C+145&rft.pub=V%26P&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=9788834315842&rft.aulast=Ambaglio&rft.aufirst=Dino&rft.au=Landucci+Gattinoni%2C+Franca&rft.au=Bravi%2C+Luigi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiodorus+Siculus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBuckley1996" class="citation book cs1">Buckley, Terry (1996). <i>Aspects of Greek History 750-323 BC: A Source-based Approach</i>. 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Problemi e metodo.</i> Como: Edizioni New Press.</li> <li>Braithwaite-Westoby, Kara. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/707724">Diodorus and the Alleged Revolts of 374–373 BCE</a>," Classical Philology 115, no. 2 (April 2020): 265–270.</li> <li>Clarke, Katherine. 1999. "Universal perspectives in Historiography." In <i>The Limits of Historiography: Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts.</i> Edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, 249–279. Mnemosyne. Supplementum 191. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.</li> <li>Hammond, Nicholas G. L. 1998. "Portents, Prophecies, and Dreams in Diodorus' Books 14–17." <i>Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies</i> 39.4: 407–428.</li> <li>Hau, Lisa Irene, Alexander Meeus, and Brian Sheridan (eds.). 2018. <i>Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke.</i> Peeters: Leuven.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Laqueur" title="Richard Laqueur">Laqueur, Richard</a>. 1992. <i>Diodors Geschichtswerk – Die Überlieferung von Buch I-V.</i> Frankfurt am Main.</li> <li>McQueen, Earl I. 1995. <i>Diodorus Siculus. The Reign of Philip II: The Greek and Macedonian Narrative from Book XVI. A Companion.</i> London: Bristol Classical Press.</li> <li>Muntz, Charles E. 2017. <i>Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic.</i> New York: Oxford Univ. Press.</li> <li>Rathmann, Michael. 2016. <i>Diodor und seine „Bibliotheke“. 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title="s:el:Ιστορική Βιβλιοθήκη">Ιστορική Βιβλιοθήκη</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiodorus_Siculus" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source-2">Diodorus Siculus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540">"Library"</a> (in Ancient Greek). Perseus Digital Library. Books 1–5 only<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 September</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Library&rft.pages=Books+1-5+only&rft.pub=Perseus+Digital+Library&rft.au=Diodorus+Siculus&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%253Atext%253A2008.01.0540&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiodorus+Siculus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source-2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html">"The Library of History"</a> (in Ancient Greek). LacusCurtius. Books 6–10 only<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 September</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Library+of+History&rft.pages=Books+6-10+only&rft.pub=LacusCurtius&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpenelope.uchicago.edu%2FThayer%2FE%2FRoman%2FTexts%2FDiodorus_Siculus%2Fhome.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiodorus+Siculus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiodorus_Siculus" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source-2">Diodorus Siculus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0083">"Library"</a> (in Ancient Greek). Perseus Digital Library. Books 9–17 only<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 September</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Library&rft.pages=Books+9-17+only&rft.pub=Perseus+Digital+Library&rft.au=Diodorus+Siculus&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext.jsp%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0083&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiodorus+Siculus" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>English translations</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44254">Works by Diodorus Siculus</a> at <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiodorus_Siculus" class="citation web cs1">Diodorus Siculus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html">"The Library of History"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 June</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Library&rft.pages=Books+9-17+only&rft.pub=Perseus+Digital+Library&rft.au=Diodorus+Siculus&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext.jsp%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiodorus+Siculus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiodorus_Siculus" class="citation web cs1">Diodorus Siculus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/info/diodorus.html">"Historical Library"</a>. Translated by Andrew Smith. Attalus.org. Books 33–40 only<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000401560974">ISNI</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/56608763">VIAF</a></span><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/27052412">2</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/741154380957730291407">3</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/379144647699642203511">4</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/526144647682823556997">5</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/10639948">6</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/216792424">7</a></span></li><li><span 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