The Library Of History, Book XV - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
Channel: OpenAudio Recordings
Date: 2023-08-24

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 15.
Published in Volume 6 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1954 and Volume 7 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1952.
Translated by Charles Henry Oldfather and Charles L. Sherman.
Digitalized by Bill Thayer.
Audiobook produced by OpenAudio Recordings.
Read by Nancy, a Microsoft Azure AI Neural Voice.


Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus:
- How the Persians fought against Evagoras in Cyprus.
- How the Lacedaemonians, contrary to the common agreements, deported the Mantineians from their native land.
- On the poems of Dionysius the tyrant.

- On the arrest of Tiribazus and his acquittal.
- On the death of Glōs and the condemnation of Orontes.
- How Amyntas and the Lacedaemonians made war upon the Olynthians.

- How the Lacedaemonians seized the Cadmeia.
- How they enslaved the Greek cities contrary to the covenants.
- The settlement of the island of Pharos in the Adriatic.

- The campaign of Dionysius against Tyrrhenia and the plundering of the temple.
- The campaign of Dionysius against the Carthaginians; his victory and defeat.
- How the Thebans recovered the Cadmeia.

- How the Carthaginians were endangered when afflicted by a plague.
-  On the Boeotian War and the events connected with it.
- The campaign of the Triballi against Abdera.

- The campaign of the Persians against Egypt.
- How the Thebans defeated the Lacedaemonians in the most famous battle of Leuctra and laid claim to the supremacy of Greece.
- The accomplishments of the Thebans during their invasions of the Peloponnesus.

- On the system of training of Iphicrates and his discoveries in the art of war.
- The campaign of the Lacedaemonians against Corcyra.
- On the earthquake and inundation that took place in the Peloponnesus and the torch that appeared in the heavens.

- How there took place among the Argives a great slaughter which was called the reign of club-law.
- On Jason, the tyrant of Pherae, and his successors.
- The synoecismos of Messenê by the Thebans.

- The campaign of the Boeotians against Thessaly.



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