Diodorus in a sentence

Diodorus Siculus Diodorus is a rich source of traditional information concerning the mythology and history of the Dorians, especially the Library of History.

Halliday (1959), p. 52. Professor Timothy Champion, discussing Diodorus Siculus's comments on the tin trade, states that "Diodorus never actually says that the Phoenicians sailed to Cornwall.

In the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus has Prettanikē nēsos, Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca Historica Book V. Chapter XXI.

According to Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, during the epic Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), a small band of men broke into the enemy camp and reached the tent of the Persian King, Xerxes.

However, Diodorus was actually summarizing the writings of Ctesias, a Greek historian who wrote around 400 BCE.

Assuming that Ictis, Mictis and Corbulo are the same, Diodorus appears to have read Timaeus, who must have read Pytheas, whom Polybius also read.

Both Diodorus and Plutarch suggest he was quickly restored to the favour of the Athenians.

But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack (437) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party (c. 439).

Centuries later, this version was to be narrated by Diodorus Siculus and all the historians who used Cleitarchus.

Destruction The Selinuntines are again mentioned in 397 BCE when they supported Dionysius during his war with Carthage; Diodorus Siculus xiv. 47 but both the city and territory were again given up to the Carthaginians by the peace of 383 BCE.

Diodorus also writes of "Bagistanon" and claims it was inscribed by Semiramis.

Diodorus does not mention Pytheas by name.

Diodorus of Cilicia tells the story of Atlas, an ancient people that inhabited one of the most fertile areas in Africa, and looked at the sea shores of his country as the homeland of the gods.

Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were the leaders of this school.

Diodorus places it 22 years earlier, or 650 BCE, and Hieronymus still further back in 654 BCE.

Diodorus, Plutarch, Arrian and Justin all mentioned the theory that Alexander was poisoned.

Diodorus says that the inhabitants of Cornwall are civilised in manner and especially hospitable to strangers because of their dealings with foreign merchants.

Diodorus Siculus (4.81.4), in a variant of Actaeon's hubris that has been largely ignored, has it that Actaeon wanted to marry Artemis.

Diodorus Siculus, LV 76 A statue of the god was somehow the god himself, and the image on a man's tomb indicated somehow his presence.

Diodorus Siculus wrote about the Celts of Gaul and Britain in his 1st-century history.