The Library Of History, Book XVII - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-09-30

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 17.
Published in Volume 8 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1963.
Translated by C. Bradford Welles.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
Audiobook produced by OpenAudio Recordings.
Read by Nancy, a Microsoft Azure AI Neural Voice.


Contents of the Seventeenth Book of Diodorus:
- How Alexander, having succeeded to the throne, disposed the affairs of his kingdom.
- How he razed Thebes to the ground and terrified the Greeks and was elected general plenipotentiary of Greece.
- How he crossed into Asia and defeated the satraps at the river Granicus in Phrygia.

- How he took by siege Miletus and Halicarnassus.
- The battle of Dareius against Alexander at Issus in Cilicia and the victory of Alexander.
- The siege of Tyre, the occupation of Egypt, and the journey of the king to Ammon.
- The battle of Alexander with Dareius at Arbela and the victory of Alexander.

- The battle of Antipater with the Lacedaemonians and the victory of Antipater.
- The capture of Arbela by Alexander and the seizure of great wealth.
- The refreshment of the army in Babylon and the rewards given to those who had distinguished themselves in service.

- How he showed kindness to the Greeks who had been mutilated, and took and sacked Persepolis.
- How Alexander took the field against the Mardi and defeated them.
- How Thalestris queen of the Amazons had relations with Alexander.

- The campaign of Alexander against the Areii who had revolted and the capture of the "Rock".
- How Alexander marched through the desert and lost many of his men.
- How the Branchidae, who of old had been settled by the Persians on the borders of their kingdom, were slain by Alexander as traitors to the Greeks.

- How Alexander defeated the Sogdiani who had revolted and slew more than one hundred and twenty thousand of them.
- How he punished the Bactriani and subdued the Sogdiani a second time and founded cities in suitable places to restrain any who rebelled.
- The third rebellion of the Sogdiani and capture of those who took refuge in the "Rock."

- The campaign of the king against the people called Nautaces and the destruction of the army in heavy snow.
- Preparation for the campaign against the Indians.
- Invasion of India and complete annihilation of their first nation in order to overawe the rest.

- How he benefited the city named Nysia because of his relation­ship to it through Dionysus.
- How, after plundering the stronghold of Massaca, he cut down all the mercenaries although they fought magnificently.
- How he took by assault the Rock called Aornus, which had always proved impregnable.

- How he won over to his side Taxiles, king of the Indians, and in a great engagement defeated Porus, took him prisoner and gave him back his throne because of his gallant conduct.
- How, when Alexander desired to cross the Ganges River and march against the people called Gandaridae, the Macedonians mutinied.
- How, after marking the furthest point reached by his army, the king visited the remaining regions of the Indians.

- How he sailed down the Indus River to the southern Ocean, and almost died of an arrow wound.- Concerning the Indians whom he conquered on both banks of the river as far as the Ocean.
- Concerning the marvels and practices found among the inhabitants and about the men who live a brutish existence.
- How the naval expedition through the Ocean rejoined Alexander as he was encamped by the sea and gave an account of their voyage.

- How again setting sail they skirted a long expanse of coastline.
- How he selected thirty thousand young Persians, trained them in military exercises and formed them into a counterpart of his Macedonian phalanx.
- How Alexander, having paid the debts of his veteran Macedonians, which cost him ten thousand talents, returned them to their homes.

- How the Macedonians revolted and he punished their ringleaders.
- How Peucestes brought to Alexander ten thousand bowmen and slingers whom he had recruited from among the Persians.
- How the king reorganized his army by intermingling Persians with Macedonians.

- How he paid expenses and educational fees for all the soldiers' children, ten thousand in number.
- How Leosthenes made preparations for starting a war against the Macedonians.
- How Alexander campaigned against the Cossaeans.

- How, as the king was on his way to Babylon, the Chaldaeans prophesied to Alexander that he would die if he entered Babylon.
- How the king at first was frightened and passed Babylon by, but later, persuaded by the Greek philosophers, entered the city.
- Concerning the omens that appeared to Alexander and concerning his death.



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