The Library Of History, Book XIV - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-08-20

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 14.
Published in Volume 6 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1954.
Translated by Charles Henry Oldfather.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
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Contents of the Fourteenth Book of Diodorus:
- The overthrow of the democracy in Athens and the establishment of the thirty men.
- The lawless conduct of the thirty men toward the citizens.
- How the tyrant Dionysius prepared a citadel and distributed the city and its territory among the masses.

- How Dionysius, to the amazement of all, recovered his tyranny when it was collapsing.
- How the Lacedaemonians managed conditions in Greece.
- The death of Alcibiades, and the tyranny of Clearchus the Lacedaemonian in Byzantium and its overthrow.

- How Lysander the Lacedaemonian undertook to overthrow descendants of Heracles and was unsuccessful.
- How Dionysius sold into slavery Catanê and Naxos and transplanted the inhabitants of Leontini to Syracuse.
- The founding of Halaesa in Sicily.

- The war between the Lacedaemonians and the Eleans.
- How Dionysius constructed the wall at the Hexapyli.
- How Cyrus led an army against his brother and was slain.

- How the Lacedaemonians came to the aid of the Greeks of Asia.
- The founding of Adranum in Sicily and the death of Socrates the philosopher.
- The construction of the wall on the Chersonesus.

- The preparations made by Dionysius for the war against the Carthaginians and his manufacture of arms, in connection with which he invented the missile hurled by a catapult.
- How war broke out between the Carthaginians and Dionysius.
- How Dionysius reduced by siege Motyê, a notable city of the Carthaginians.

- How the Aegestaeans set fire to the camp of Dionysius.
- How the Carthaginians crossed over to Sicily with three hundred thousand soldiers and made war upon Dionysius.
- The retreat of Dionysius to Syracuse.

- The Carthaginian expedition to the Straits and the capture of Messenê.
- The great sea-battle between the Carthaginians and Dionysius and the victory of the Carthaginians.
- The plundering by the Carthaginians of the temples of both Demeter and Corê.

- The retribution by the gods upon the plunderers of the temples and the destruction of the Carthaginian host by a pestilence.
- The sea-battle between the Syracusans and the Carthaginians and the victory of the Syracusans.
- The speech in the assembly on freedom by Theodorus.

- How Dionysius outgeneralled the thousand most turbulent mercenaries of his and caused them to be massacred.
- How Dionysius laid siege to the outposts and camp of the Carthaginians.
- How Dionysius reduced the Carthaginians by siege and set fire to many ships of the enemy.

- The defeat of the Carthaginians by land and also by sea.
- The flight of the Carthaginians by night, Dionysius having co-operated with them without the knowledge of the Syracusans for a bribe of four hundred talents.
- The difficulties which befell the Carthaginians because of their impiety against the deity.

- The merging of the cities of Sicily which had been laid waste.
- How Dionysius reduced by siege certain of the cities of Sicily and brought others into an alliance.
- How he established relations of friendship with the rulers Agyris of Agyrium and Nicodemus​ of Centuripae.

- How Agesilaüs, the Spartan king, crossed over into Asia with an army and laid waste the territory which was subject to the Persians.
- How Agesilaüs defeated in battle the Persians, who were commanded by Pharnabazus.
- How Conon was appointed general by the Persians and rebuilt the walls of the Athenians.

- How the Lacedaemonians defeated the Boeotians near Corinth and this war was called the Corinthian.
- How Dionysius forced his way with much fighting into Tauromenium and then was driven out.
- How the Carthaginians were defeated near the city of Bacaena​ by Dionysius.

- The expedition of the Carthaginians to Sicily and the settlement of the war.
- How Thibrus,​ the Lacedaemonian general, was defeated by the Persians and slain.
- How the Greeks of Italy joined to form a single political group and took the field against Dionysius.

- The capture and razing of Caulonia and Hipponium and the removal of their inhabitants to Syracuse.
- How the Greeks concluded the Peace of Antalcidas with Artaxerxes.
- The capture of Rhegium and the disasters suffered by the city.

- The capture of Rome, except for the Capitoline, by the Gauls.




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