The Library Of History, Book XVI - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-09-09

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 16.
Published in Volume 7 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1952 and Volume 8 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1963.
Translated by Charles L. Sherman and C. Bradford Welles.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
Audiobook produced by OpenAudio Recordings.
Read by Nancy, a Microsoft Azure AI Neural Voice.


Contents of the Sixteenth Book of Diodorus:
- How Philip, son of Amyntas, succeeded to the Macedonian throne.
- How he defeated Argaeus, pretender to the throne.
- How, having subdued the Illyrians and the Paeonians, he acquired the empire of his fathers.

- On the pusillanimity of Dionysius the Younger and the flight of Dion.
- The founding of Tauromenium in Sicily.
- Events in Euboea and in the course of the Social War.

- Siege of Amphipolis by Philip and its capture.
- How Philip, having reduced to slavery the people of Pydna, developed the gold mines.
- How Dion, having liberated the Syracusans, defeated Dionysius.

- How, after being expelled from his native land, he again got control of Syracuse.
- Conclusion of the Social War.
- Combination of three kings against Philip.

- How Philomelus the Phocian, having seized Delphi and its oracle, kindled the Sacred War.
- On the original discovery of the oracle.
- The defeat and death of Philomelus the Phocian.

- Onomarchus' succession to the command and his preparations for war.
- How the Boeotians, having come to the assistance of Artabazus, defeated the satraps of the Great King.
- How the Athenians, having gained the mastery of the Chersonesus, colonized it.

- How Philip, having captured Methonê, razed it.
- How Philip, having defeated the Phocians, drove them from Thessaly.
- How Onomarchus the Phocian, having defeated Philip in two battles, brought him into extreme peril.

- How Onomarchus, having defeated the Boeotians, seized Coroneia.
- How Onomarchus, in a pitched battle with Philip and the Thessalians in Thessaly, was defeated.
- How Onomarchus himself was hanged and the rest of his faction were drowned in the sea as temple-robbers.

- How Phaÿllus, having succeeded to the command, coined into money many of the silver and gold dedications at the shrine.
- How, having raised the rate of pay, he gathered a multitude of mercenaries.
- How he raised the fortunes of the Phocians when they were at their lowest ebb.

- How, by corrupting the cities and their chief men with bribes, he won many allies.
- How the tyrants of the Pheraeans, having betrayed Pherae to Philip, became allies of the Phocians.
- Battle of the Phocians with the Boeotians near Orchomenus and defeat of the Phocians.

- Other battles of the same peoples by the Cephisus and Coroneia and victory of the Boeotians.
- How Phaÿllus, having made an expedition into Locris, captured many cities.
- How Phaÿllus, having fallen ill of a wasting sickness, died a painful death.

- How Phalaecus, having succeeded to the command, conducted the war disgracefully, and was driven into exile.
- How the peoples of the Peloponnese broke out in civil strife.
- How Artaxerxes, commonly called Ochus, again got possession of Egypt, Phoenicia, and Cyprus.

- How Philip, having won the Chalcidian cities to his side, razed their most important one.
- Investigation of the expenditure of the sacred monies and punishment of the pillagers.
- How those who took refuge at the shrine of Apollo, Phocians all, five hundred in number, were miraculously to the last man burned to death.

- How the Phocian war was concluded.
- How those who had participated with the Phocians in the pillaging of the shrine were all punished by some sort of divine agency.
- The voyage of Timoleon to Sicily and his fortunes up to his death.

- The siege of Perinthus and Byzantium by Philip.
- Philip's battle with the Athenians at Chaeroneia and the defeat of the Athenians.
- How the Greeks chose Philip as their generalissimo.

- How Philip was assassinated as he was about to cross into Asia.




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