Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens

The most momentous century of Hellenic history is covered in an accessible translation of the Bibliotheke for students, teachers, and general readers. Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes’ invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great—the Bibliotheke , or “Library,” produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90–30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have disdained Diodorus as a spectacularly unintellige