The Library Of History, Book XII - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-08-14

Here is a reading of the twelfth book in the Library of History by Diodorus Siculus. Note footnotes have been omitted from the recording.

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The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 12.
Published in Volume 4 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1946 and Volume 5 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1950.
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 Twelfth Book of Diodorus:
- On the campaign of the Athenians against Cyprus.
- On the revolt of the Megarians from the Athenians.
- On the battle at Coroneia between the Athenians and Boeotians.

- On the campaign of the Athenians against Euboea.
- The war in Sicily between the Syracusans and the Acragantini.
- The founding in Italy of Thurii and its civil strife.

- How Charondas, who was chosen lawgiver of Thurii, was responsible for many benefits to his native city.
- How Zaleucus, the lawgiver in Locri, won for himself great fame.
- How the Athenians expelled the Hestiaeans and sent there their own colonists.

- On the war between the Thurians and the Tarantini.
- On the civil strife in Rome.
- On the war between the Samians and the Milesians.

- How the Syracusans campaigned against the Picenians and razed their city.
- How the Corinthian War, as it is called, broke out in Greece.
- How the nation of the Campani was formed in Italy.

- The naval battle between the Corinthians and the Cercyraeans.
- The revolt of Potidaea and the Chalcidians from the Athenians.
- On the campaign of the Athenians against the Potidaeans.

- On the civil strife which arose in Thurii.
- How Meton of Athens was the first to expound the nineteen-year cycle.
- How the Tarantini founded the city of Heracleia in Italy.

- How in Rome Spurius Maelius attempted to seize the supreme power and was put to death.
- On the Peloponnesian War, as it is called.
- On the battle between the Boeotians and the Plataeans.

- How, when Methonê was being besieged by the Athenians, Brasidas the Spartan won distinction and fame.
- How the Athenians campaigned against the Locrians and pillaged the city of Thronium.
- How the Aeginetans, who had been expelled by the Athenians, colonized Thyreae, as it is called.

- How the Lacedaemonians sent an army into Attica and destroyed the properties.
- The second campaign of the Athenians against the Potidaeans.
- The campaign of the Lacedaemonians against Acarnania and the naval battle with the Athenians.

- The campaign of Sitalces against Macedonia, and of the Lacedaemonians against Attica.
- On the embassy from Leontini to Athens and the powerful oratory of Gorgias their ambassador.
- On the war between the Leontines and the Syracusans.

- The revolt of the Lesbians from the Athenians and the seizure and destruction of Plataea by the Lacedaemonians.
- The civil strife among the Cercyraeans.
- How the Athenians were seized by a pestilential disease and lost many of their citizens.

- How the Lacedaemonians founded Heracleia, a city in Trachis.
- How the Athenians slew many of the Ambraciotes and laid waste their city.
- On the Lacedaemonians who were made prisoners on the island of Sphacteria.

- On the punishment inflicted by Postumius on his son because he left his place in the ranks.
- On the war between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians over the Megarians.
- The war between the Lacedaemonian and Athenians over the Chalcidians.

- The battle in Boeotia between the Athenians and the Boeotians.
- The campaign of the Athenians against the Lesbian exiles.
- The expulsion of the Delians by the Athenians.

- The capture and destruction of Toronê by the Athenians.
- How, after the Athenians and Lacedaemonians had conclude an alliance between them, the rest of the cities were alienated from them.
- How the Delians were restored by the Athenians to their native state.

- How the Lacedaemonians waged war upon the Mantineans and Argives.
- The campaign of the Byzantians and Calchedonians against Bithynia.
- On the reasons why the Athenians launched a campaign against Syracuse.




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