{"product_id":"diodorus-siculus-books-11-12371-peter-green-9780292712775","title":"Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 Bc--The Alternative Version","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2007 -- A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or \"Library\") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a \"universal history\" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292712774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292712775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.08w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2006 pg. 351","brand":"Peter Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992911839487,"sku":"9780292712775","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a3dc314-31cf-40f5-9848-892f1961c609.jpg?v=1683321493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diodorus-siculus-books-11-12371-peter-green-9780292712775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}