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<p>Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a historian with a distinct point of view indicative of his times.</p> <p>Sacks focuses on three areas of Diodorus's history writing: methods of organizat
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kenneth S. Sacks
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691630281
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Travel, True Crime
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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