The Library Of History, Book XIX - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
Channel: OpenAudio Recordings
Date: 2023-11-04

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 19.
Published in Volume 9 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1947 and 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 Nineteenth Book of Diodorus:
- From what beginnings Agathocles rose in making himself tyrant of Syracuse.
- The capture and death of Eurydicê and of King Philip.
- How Eumenes went into the upper satrapies with the Silver Shields and collected the satraps and their armies in Persia.

- How Antigonus pursued Eumenes and was defeated at the Coprates River.
- How he set out into Media and lost many of his troops in the passes.
- Antigonus' battle against Eumenes and the satraps in Paraetacenê.

- The withdrawal of Antigonus and his army into Media for winter quarters.
- Cassander's invasion of Macedonia and his siege of Olympias in Pydna.
- How Eumenes outgeneralled Antigonus when the latter was going through the desert.

- The march of Antigonus through the desert against the enemy and his attack on their elephants in the winter quarters.
- How after a pitched battle Antigonus gained control of all the forces of his opponents.
- How he killed Eumenes and such other generals as had been his enemies.

- The flood at Rhodes and the disasters that befell that city.
- The death of Pithon at the hands of Antigonus and the destruction of those who had been instigated by him to revolt in Media.
- The capture of Olympias by Cassander, and her death.

- How Cassander married Thessalonicê, the daughter of Philip son of Amyntas; and how he founded a city named for himself on Pallenê.
- How Polyperchon, giving up the cause of the kings as hopeless, fled to Aetolia.
- How Cassander restored the city of Thebes, which had been razed by Alexander.

- On the operations of Cassander in the Peloponnesus.
- The march of Antigonus and his army to the sea, and the flight of Seleucus into Egypt to Ptolemy.

- The alliance of Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Cassander, and Lysimachus also, for the war against Antigonus.
- How Antigonus built many ships and sent generals to Greece and to Pontus.
- How he established friendship with Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, and took Tyre by siege; and how Alexander shifted his allegiance to Cassander.

- How Polycleitus, the admiral of Ptolemy, defeated the generals of Antigonus both on land and on sea.
- About the campaign of Agathocles against the Messenians, and the peace in which the Carthaginians were the mediators.
- The revolt of Nuceria from the Romans.

- The operations of the generals of Antigonus and of Cassander in Greece.
- Cassander's campaign in Aetolia and the country about the Adriatic.
- The capture in Caria of the army sent out by Cassander.​

- How the Syracusan exiles, after persuading the people of Acragas to fight against Agathocles, sent for a general from Lacedaemon, Acrotatus.
- How Acrotatus accepted the general­ship and ruled as a tyrant; and how the Acragantines made peace with the dynast.
- The Roman operations in Iapygia.

- The revolt of the Callantians from Lysimachus, and what befell those who were dispatched to their aid by Antigonus.
- How Philip, who had been sent as general into Aetolia by Cassander, defeated at one time the peoples of Aetolia and Epirus.
- How the Romans defeated the Samnites in battle, and a little later won back the Campanians who had revolted.

- How Antigonus sent Ptolemaeus as general with an army to liberate the Greeks, and about his operations in Greece.
- The revolt and the capture of Cyrenê, also the campaign of Ptolemy into Cyprus and Syria.
- The battle of Demetrius against Ptolemy, and the victory of Ptolemy.

- The operations of Cassander in Epirus and on the Adriatic.
- How Seleucus received a small force from Ptolemy, gained control of Babylon, and recovered the satrapy that he had formerly possessed.
- How Antigonus took Coelê Syria without a battle, and how he dispatched an army into Arabia.

- How Antigonus sent his son Demetrius with the army into Babylonia.
- About the operations of the Romans and the Samnites.
- How Agathocles deceived the Messenians and became ruler of their city.

- How he slew those of the Messenians, Tauromenians, and Centoripians who opposed him.
- How Agathocles defeated Deinocrates and the exiles at Galaria.
- The death of Roxanê and of King Alexander.

- The operations of the Romans in Italy.
- About the shipwreck that befell the Carthaginians.
- How the Carthaginians defeated Agathocles in a battle at Himera and shut him up in Syracuse.



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