The Library, Books 16-20
philip ii, alexander the great, and the successors
$31.71
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2019
Summary
The Library: Philip, Alexander, and the Wars of the Diadochi
Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe. The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from mythological times to 60 BCE, and fifteen of The Library’s forty books survive.
This new translation by Robin Waterfield of books 16-20 covers a vital period in European …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198759881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198759886 |
| Author: | Diodorus Siculus, Robin Waterfield |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 127mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Diodorus Siculus
Robin Waterfield is a writer, living in Greece. His previous translations for Oxford World’s Classics include Plato’s Republic and five other editions of Plato’s dialogues, Aristotle’s Physics and The Art of Rhetoric, Herodotus’ Histories, Polybius’ Histories, Plutarch’s Greek Lives and Roman Lives and Hellenistic Lives, Euripides’ Orestes and Other Plays and Heracles and Other Plays, Xenophon’s The Expedition of Cyrus, Demosthenes’ Selected Speeches and The First Philosophers: The PreSocratics and the Sophists. He is the author of Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire (Oxford, 2011), Taken at the Flood (Oxford, 2014), and Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens (Oxford 2018).
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