Add to ORKGIn the Third book of his Bibliotheca, Diodorus Siculus includes an account of the Egyptian gold mines and describes the terrible living conditions of the slaves who are exploited to extract the metal. In this regard, Diodorus’ source is the historian Agatharchides of Cnidus, whose account is handed down by the Byzantine writer Photius. The comparison between the two texts allows scholars to highlight the different historical perspective of Diodorus, which privileges a worldview dominated by philanthropy and compassion for the most peripheral humanity. Further confirmation arises from the description of the Iberian mines (V 35-38), which Diodorus derives from the historian and philosopher Posidonius, who plays an important role for the metho...
The Bibliotheke of Diodoros of Sicily is the most voluminous Greek historiographical text from the p...
Le fragment de Posidonius qui traite de Tolosa et des trésors que les Tectosages y avaient accumulés...
This paper examines a line of argument in modern historiography that tends to discredit the historic...
In the Third book of his Bibliotheca, Diodorus Siculus includes an account of the Egyptian gold mine...
This paper starts from the premise that Polybius’ Histories is unrepresentative of Hellenistic hist...
Active in Alexandria of Egypt in the middle of the second century BC, Agatharchides of Cnidus is one...
In this article we address the question of the historical credibility of the Diodorean account of th...
In the proem of his Bibliotheke, Diodorus Siculus states that a historian should provide knowledge f...
Diodoro de Sicília historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum escreveu uma obra intitula...
Diodoro de Sicília historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum escreveu uma obra intitula...
Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke has traditionally been seen as a quarry for the lost historians on wh...
Photius’ interest in the turmoil in II B.C. Sicily, which probably reflects ninth-century anxiety ov...
Diodoro de Sicília, historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum, escreveu uma obra intitu...
A careful and deeper reading of the fragments of the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus about th...
In his Bibliotheca, Diodorus wants not only to write a koine history, an universal history in time a...
The Bibliotheke of Diodoros of Sicily is the most voluminous Greek historiographical text from the p...
Le fragment de Posidonius qui traite de Tolosa et des trésors que les Tectosages y avaient accumulés...
This paper examines a line of argument in modern historiography that tends to discredit the historic...
In the Third book of his Bibliotheca, Diodorus Siculus includes an account of the Egyptian gold mine...
This paper starts from the premise that Polybius’ Histories is unrepresentative of Hellenistic hist...
Active in Alexandria of Egypt in the middle of the second century BC, Agatharchides of Cnidus is one...
In this article we address the question of the historical credibility of the Diodorean account of th...
In the proem of his Bibliotheke, Diodorus Siculus states that a historian should provide knowledge f...
Diodoro de Sicília historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum escreveu uma obra intitula...
Diodoro de Sicília historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum escreveu uma obra intitula...
Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke has traditionally been seen as a quarry for the lost historians on wh...
Photius’ interest in the turmoil in II B.C. Sicily, which probably reflects ninth-century anxiety ov...
Diodoro de Sicília, historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum, escreveu uma obra intitu...
A careful and deeper reading of the fragments of the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus about th...
In his Bibliotheca, Diodorus wants not only to write a koine history, an universal history in time a...
The Bibliotheke of Diodoros of Sicily is the most voluminous Greek historiographical text from the p...
Le fragment de Posidonius qui traite de Tolosa et des trésors que les Tectosages y avaient accumulés...
This paper examines a line of argument in modern historiography that tends to discredit the historic...