The Library Of History, Book XX - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-11-04

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

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Published in Volume 10 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1954.
Translated by Russel M. Geer.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
Audiobook produced by OpenAudio Recordings.
Read by Nancy, a Microsoft Azure AI Neural Voice.


Contents of the Twentieth Book of Diodorus:
- How Agathocles crossed into Libya, defeated the Carthaginians in a battle, and became master of many cities in making himself tyrant of Syracuse.
- How Cassander went to the aid of Audoleon; and how he made an alliance with Ptolemaeus, Antigonus' general, who had become a rebel.
- How Ptolemy took some of the cities of Cilicia, and how Antigonus' son Demetrius recovered them.

- How Polyperchon attempted to bring Heracles, the son of Barsinê, back to his ancestral kingdom; and how Ptolemy made away with Nicocreon,​ the king of Paphos.
- Concerning the actions of the kings in the Bosporus, and of the Romans and Samnites in Italy.
- The campaign of Ptolemy against Cilicia and the adjacent coast.

- Assassination of Heracles by Polyperchon.
- Capture of Hamilcar, the general of the Carthaginians, by the Syracusans.
- How the people of Acragas attempted to liberate the Sicilians.

- How they capture twenty​ ships of the Syracusans.
- About the revolt that took place in Libya, and the peril of Agathocles.​
- About the acts of Appius Claudius during his consul­ship.

- Delivery of Corinth and Sicyon to Ptolemy.
- Assassination of Cleopatra in Sardis.
- How Agathocles defeated the Carthaginians in battle; and how, after summoning Ophellas, the tyrant of Cyrenê, to co-operate with them, he assassinated him and took over the army that was with him.

- How the Carthaginians put down Bormilcar, who had attempted to become tyrant.
- How, when Agathocles sent the booty to Sicily, some of the ships were wrecked.
- How the Romans went to the aid of the Marsi, who were being attacked by the Samnites; and how they took Caprium​ in Etruria after a siege.

- The naval expedition of Demetrius Poliorcetes into the Peiraeus, and his capture of Munychia.
- Liberation of the Athenians and the Megarians.
- Voyage of Demetrius to Cyprus, his battle against the general Menelaüs, and the siege of Salamis.

- Demetrius' naval battle against Ptolemy and victory of Demetrius.
- Capture of all Cyprus and of the army of Ptolemy.
- How, because Antigonus and Demetrius assumed the diadem after this victory, the other dynasts, jealous of them, proclaimed themselves kings.

- How Agathocles, having besieged and taken Utica, transported part of his troops across into Sicily.
- How the people of Acragas took the field against Agathocles' generals and were defeated.
- How Agathocles won over to himself Heraclea, Therma, and Cephaloedium, but reduced the country and city of the Apolloniates to utter slavery.

- How in Sicily Agathocles defeated the Carthaginians in a naval battle and the people of Acragas in a battle on land.
- Agathocles' crossing to Libya for the second time and his defeat.
- The confusion that arose in the camps of both armies.

- Agathocles' flight to Sicily.
- The slaughter of the Sicilians by Agathocles.
- Expedition of King Antigonus against Egypt with great forces.

- Desertion of Pasiphilus, a general, from Agathocles.​
- How the Carthaginians made peace with Agathocles.
- How Demetrius, after laying siege to Rhodes, abandoned the siege.​

- How the Romans defeated the Samnites in two battles.
- How Demetrius sailed from Rhodes to Greece and freed most of the cities.
- How Agathocles unjustly exacted money from the Liparaeans and lost the ships in which the money was.

- How the Romans reduced the tribe of the Aecli and made peace with the Samnites.
- What Cleonymus did in Italy.
- For what reasons Cassander and Lysimachus, and likewise Seleucus and Ptolemy, combined and made war on Antigonus.

- Campaign of Cassander into Thessaly against Demetrius, and of Lysimachus into Asia.
- Revolt of the generals Docimus and Phoenix from Antigonus.
- How Antigonus, taking the field against Lysimachus, was far superior to him in military might.​

- How he summoned his son Demetrius from Greece.​
- How Ptolemy subdued the cities of Coelê Syria; and how Seleucus made an expedition from the upper satrapies as far as Cappadocia.
- Dispersion of all the armies for wintering.




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