The Library Of History, Book II - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
Channel: OpenAudio Recordings
Date: 2023-08-05

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

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Published in Volume 1 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1933 and Volume 2 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1935.
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 Second Book (Book 2) of Diodorus:
- On Ninus, the first king in Asia, and his deeds.
- On the birth of Semiramis and her rise.
- How King Ninus married Semiramis because of her outstanding ability.

- How Semiramis, ascending the throne on the death of Ninus, accomplished many great deeds.
- The founding of Babylon and an account of its building.
- On the hanging garden, as it is called, and the other astonishing things in Babylonia.

- The campaign of Semiramis against Egypt, Ethiopia, and India.
- On her descendants who were kings in Asia and their luxury and sluggishness.
- How Sardanapallus, the last king, because of his luxuriousness lost his throne to Arbaces the Mede.

- On the Chaldaeans and their observation of the stars.
- On the kings of Media and the disagreement of historians upon them.
- On the topography of India and the products of the land, and on the customs of the Indians.

- On the Scythians, Amazons, and Hyperboreans.
- On Arabia, and the products of the land and its legends.
- On the islands which have been discovered to the south in the ocean.




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