Bisher sah die Forschung in Diodor einen Autor von schlichtem Geist und ebensolcher Arbeitstechnik, gerade gut genug, verlorene Geschichtswerke des Hellenismus zu rekonstruieren. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt aber einen durchaus ernsthaften Historiographen, der seiner „Universalg…
Previous research saw Diodorus as an author with modest intellect and a working technique of equal mediocrity, just capable enough of reconstructing forgotten historical works from the Hellenistic period. This study reveals a serious historiographer who brought an entirely origi…
Bisher sah die Forschung in Diodor einen Autor von schlichtem Geist und ebensolcher Arbeitstechnik, gerade gut genug, verlorene Geschichtswerke des Hellenismus zu rekonstruieren. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt aber einen durchaus ernsthaften Historiographen, der seiner „Universalg…
Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditio…
In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent…
