The Library Of History, Book V - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
Channel: OpenAudio Recordings
Date: 2023-08-05

Greetings! I present the fifth book in the Library of History by Diodorus Siculus. Note footnotes have been omitted from the recording.

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Published in Volume 3 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1939.
Translated by Charles Henry Oldfather.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
Audiobook produced by OpenAudio Recordings.
Read by Nancy, a Microsoft Azure AI Neural Voice.


Contents of the Fifth Book of Diodorus:
- On the myths which are recounted about Sicily and the shape and size of the island.
- On Demeter and Corê and the discovery of the fruit of wheat.
- On Lipara and the other islands which are called the Aeolides.

- On Melitê, Gaulus, and Cercina.
- On Aethaleia, Cyrnus (Corsica), and Sardinia.
- On Pityussa and the Gymnesiae islands, which some call the Baliarides.

- On the islands in the ocean which lie towards the west.
- On the island of Britain and that called Basileia, where amber is found.
- On Gaul, Celtiberia, Iberia, Liguria, and Tyrrhenia, and on the inhabitants of these countries and the customs they observe.

- On the islands in the ocean to the south, both the one called Hiera and that called Panchaea, and on what they are said to contain.
- On Samothrace and the mysteries celebrated on the island.
- On Naxos and Symê and Calydna.

- On Rhodes and the myths which are recounted concerning it.
- On the Cherronesus which lies over against the territory of Rhodes.
- On Crete and the myths which are recounted about it, down to comparatively recent times.

- On Lesbos and the colonies which were led by Macareus to Chios, Samos, and Cos.
- On Tenedos, the colonization of the island, and the fabulous tales told by the Tenedians about Tennes.
- On the colonization by Minos of the islands of the smaller Cyclades.




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