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Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus
c. 90 BCE–c. 30 BCE · Syracuse (Sicily)
Diodorus Siculus ("Diodorus of Sicily") was a Greek historian of the first century BCE, active in the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus. He wrote the "Library of History," an ambitious universal history that aimed to cover the whole known world from mythical times down to his own day. Though only part of it survives intact, it is one of our most important continuous narratives for many periods of Greek and Mediterranean history, and it preserves material from earlier historians whose works are otherwise lost.
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Syracuse (Sicily)Magna Graecia
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Syracuse (Sicily)
The greatest Greek city of the West—a Corinthian colony that grew into a Mediterranean superpower, fended off both Athens and Carthage, and gave the world the comic poet Epicharmus and the towering genius of Archimedes.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Diodorus Siculus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.