{"id":13313,"date":"2023-05-01T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:42:25","slug":"guide-diodoros-sicily-diodorus-siculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/guide-diodoros-sicily-diodorus-siculus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Diodoros of Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post provides a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages from Diodoros of Sicily&#8217;s <em>Library of History<\/em> (ca. 36 BCE) on this website:<\/p>\n<p><em>Geographically arranged books:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Egyptians \u2013 book 1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/egyptians-diodoros-on-the-origins-of-civilization-and-on-egyptians-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptian and Ethiopian diasporas \u2013 1.28-29 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/egyptian-and-ethiopian-diasporas-diodoros-on-competing-legends-of-migration-and-colonization-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopians \u2013 2.15 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/ethiopians-diodoros-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Assyrians, Medes and Persians \u2013 2.1-34 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/assyrians-medes-and-persians-ktesias-of-knidos-ctesias-of-cnidus-via-diodoros-and-photios-on-persian-matters-fourth-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Babylonians \u2013 2.24-31 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/babylonians-diodoros-on-chaldeans-astrology-and-divination-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians \u2013 2.36-42 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/indians-diodoros-on-environment-customs-and-social-organization-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Scythians, Amazons, and Hyperboreans \u2013 2.43-46 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/scythians-amazons-and-hyperboreans-diodoros-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians, including Nabateans \u2013 2.48-54 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/arabians-diodoros-on-nabateans-and-other-arabian-peoples-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians on an island, perhaps imagined as Sri Lanka \u2013 2.55-60 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/indians-iamboulos-and-diodoros-on-a-utopian-island-beyond-india-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Other Ethiopians \u2013 3.2-10 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/ethiopians-diodoros-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Still other Ethiopians \u2013 3.23-34 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/ethiopians-agatharchides-and-diodoros-on-lifestyles-in-the-extreme-south-mid-second-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians in Arabia Felix on the eastern coast of the Red Sea \u2013 3.42-47 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/arabians-agatharchides-and-diodoros-on-peoples-of-arabia-felix-on-the-eastern-coast-of-the-red-sea-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans \u2013 3.49-55 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/libyans-diodoros-on-nasamonians-marmaridians-libyan-amazons\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Atlantians \u2013 3.56-61 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/atlantians-dionysios-of-mytilene-and-diodoros-on-supposed-atlantian-about-the-earliest-kings-gods-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Libyan&#8221; stories about Dionysos \u2013 3.62-74 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/libyans-dionysios-of-mytilene-and-diodoros-on-competitive-claims-about-the-god-dionysos-third-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians, Libyans, Iberians, and Celts in connection with Herakles \u2013 4.17-19 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/libyans-egyptians-iberians-and-celts-diodoros-on-herakles-civilizing-expeditions-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ligurians in connection with Herakles \u2013 4.20 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/ligurians-diodoros-on-their-extremely-hard-work-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Romans in connection with Herakles \u2013 4.21 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/romans-diodoros-on-their-origins-customs-and-encounters-with-hercules-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sikanians, Sicilians, Sardinians, and Iolaeians on and around Sicily \u2013 4.23-30; 4.78-85; 5.2-15 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/sicilians-and-sardinians-diodoros-diodorus-siculus-on-their-encounters-with-herakles-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Taurians and Colchians in connection with Herakles and the Argonauts \u2013 4.44-48 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/taurians-and-kolchians-colchians-diodoros-on-their-myths-customs-and-encounters-with-medea-and-the-argonauts-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Teukrians, Dardanians, and Trojans \u2013 4.75 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/trojans-teukrians-and-dardanians-diodoros-on-their-origins-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Baliaridian barbarians off the coast of Iberia or Spain- 5.16-18 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/baliaridians-and-other-barbarian-peoples-diodoros-on-their-paradoxical-customs-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peoples on an island in the Atlantic off the Libyan coast \u2013 5.19-20 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/people-on-an-idyllic-island-in-the-atlantic-off-libya-diodoros-on-their-natural-resources-and-carthaginian-colonization-plans-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Britons \u2013 5.21-22 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/britons-diodoros-on-their-simple-way-of-life-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts and Galatians in France and to the east \u2013 5.24-32 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/celts-galatians-diodoros-on-their-myths-origins-and-customs-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celtiberians, Iberians, and Lusitanians in Spain \u2013 5.33-38 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/celtiberians-iberians-and-lusitanians-diodoros-on-their-customs-and-military-skill-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ligurians again \u2013 5.39 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/ligurians-diodoros-on-their-harsh-environment-and-noble-spirit-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Tyrrhenians \u2013 5.40 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/tyrrhenians-diodoros-on-their-inventions-lifestyle-and-decline-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Panachaians off the southern coast of Arabia, drawing on Euhemeros\u00a0 \u2013 5.41-46 and 6.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=16736&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians again \u2013 5.57 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/egyptians-diodoros-on-the-origins-of-civilization-and-on-egyptians-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Cretans \u2013 5.64-84 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/10\/cretans-diodoros-on-cretan-greek-contributions-to-civilization-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chronologically arranged books:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>a) During Persian ascendancy (sixth to fourth centuries BCE): <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lydians, Croesus&#8217; consultation of Anacharsis and other sages, and Persian conquest \u2013 9.21-36 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/lydians-diodoros-on-materialistic-croesus-consultation-of-anacharsis-and-other-sages-and-persian-conquest-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Persians&#8217; subsequent expansionism and arrogance \u2013 10.13-15, 19, 25 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/persians-diodoros-on-the-expansionism-and-arrogance-of-persian-kings-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Medes, Datis, and a legend about an Athenian connection \u2013 10.27 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/medes-diodoros-on-datis-and-legends-of-an-athenian-median-connection-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sikelians (Sicilians) again \u2013 11.52, 76, 78, 88-92 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/sicilians-and-sardinians-diodoros-diodorus-siculus-on-their-encounters-with-herakles-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts and the invasion of Italy \u2013 14.114-117 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/celts-galatians-diodoros-on-their-myths-origins-and-customs-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>b) During Greco-Macedonian and then Roman ascendancy (fourth-first centuries BCE):<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Persians and Alexander of Macedon&#8217;s decline into eastern ways \u2013 17.77-78 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/persians-trogus-on-alexander-of-macedons-acculturation-to-persian-ways-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians and other peoples on the way \u2013 17.76-105 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/indians-and-other-peoples-near-india-diodoros-on-alexander-conquests-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Chaldeans again with prediction of Alexander&#8217;s death \u2013 17.112 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/babylonians-diodoros-on-chaldeans-astrology-and-divination-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Isaurians and noble death in Pisidia \u2013 18.22 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/isaurians-diodoros-on-their-bravery-and-noble-death-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Chaldeans again with prediction about Antigonos&#8217; death \u2013 19.55 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/babylonians-diodoros-on-chaldeans-astrology-and-divination-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Nabateans again \u2013 19.94-100 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/arabians-diodoros-on-nabateans-and-other-arabian-peoples-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and the wise king Dromichaites \u2013 21.11-12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/thracians-diodoros-on-dromichaites-the-wise-thracian-king-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts&#8217; \/ Galatians&#8217; invasion of Greece \u2013 22.9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/celts-galatians-diodoros-on-their-myths-origins-and-customs-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and the wise king Kotys \u2013 30.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/thracians-diodoros-on-dromichaites-the-wise-thracian-king-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Lusitanians in Iberia and Viriathus \u2013 33.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/iberians-diodoros-on-viriathus-and-the-lusitanians-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and the cruel king Diegylis\u00a0 \u2013 33.14 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/thracians-diodoros-on-the-cruelty-and-lawlessness-of-king-diegylis-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans and supposed donkey-worship in the Jerusalem temple \u2013 34\/35.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/judeans-poseidonios-apollonios-molon-diodoros-and-apion-on-human-sacrifice-and-donkey-worship-first-centuries-bce-and-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Syrian diasporas, Eunous of Apameia, and the rebellions of the enslaved on Sicily \u2013 34\/35.2\u00a0 and 36.5-6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/syrians-diodoros-on-eunous-of-apameias-leadership-of-the-slave-rebellion-on-sicily-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and the cruel king Zibelmios \u2013 34\/35.12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/thracians-diodoros-on-the-cruelty-and-lawlessness-of-king-diegylis-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Phrygians and the priest Battakes \u2013 36.13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/phrygians-diodoros-on-battakes-the-priest-of-the-great-mother-visiting-rome-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans and their origins \u2013 40.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/judeans-jews-hekataios-hecataeus-pseudo-hekataios-and-diodoros-on-judean-origins-and-the-exodus-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peoples conquered by Pompey as recorded on a supposed inscription \u2013 40.4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/mediterranean-peoples-diodoros-and-pliny-on-pompeys-subjugation-of-peoples-mid-first-century-bce-on\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post provides a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages from Diodoros of Sicily&#8217;s Library of History (ca. 36 BCE) on this website: Geographically arranged books: Egyptians \u2013 book 1 (link) Egyptian and Ethiopian diasporas \u2013 1.28-29 (link) Ethiopians \u2013 2.15 (link) Assyrians, Medes and Persians \u2013 2.1-34 (link) Babylonians \u2013 2.24-31 (link) Indians 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