The Library Of History, Book XVIII - Diodorus Siculus (Audiobook)
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Date: 2023-10-15

The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Book 18.
Published in Volume 9 of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1947.
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 Eighteenth Book of Diodorus:
- The disturbance and contention in the armies after the death of Alexander.
- How Perdiccas assumed the regency; and the division of the satrapies.
- Revolt of the Greeks in the upper satrapies,​ and the dispatch of Pithon as general against them.

- Description of the situation in Asia, and of the satrapies therein.
- How Pithon conquered the Greeks who had rebelled.
- How the Athenians began what is known as the Lamian War against Antipater.

- How Leosthenes, having been made general and having assembled an army, defeated Antipater in battle and shut him up in Lamia.
- The death of the general Leosthenes, and the funeral oration in his honour.
- How the satrapies were taken over by those to whom they had been assigned.

- The cavalry battle of the Greeks against Leonnatus, and the victory of the Greeks.
- How Antipater took over the army of Leonnatus after the latter had been slain in battle.
- How Cleitus, the Macedonian admiral, defeated the Greeks in two naval battles.

- How Perdiccas, after defeating King Ariarathes in a great engagement, took the king and many others captive.
- How Craterus, going to the aid of Antipater, defeated the Greeks and ended the Lamian War.
- The dealings of Antipater with the Athenians and the other Greeks.

- Concerning the achievements of Ptolemy in the war about Cyrenê.
- How Perdiccas invaded Pisidia and enslaved the Larandians, and, besieging the Isaurians, forced them to kill themselves and burn their city.
- The invasion of Aetolia by Antipater and Craterus.

- The transfer of the body of Alexander from Babylon to Alexandria, and description of the magnificent funeral chariot.
- How Eumenes, defeating Craterus in an engagement, killed him and Neoptolemus in the battle.
- How Perdiccas invaded Egypt and was destroyed by his friends.

- How Pithon was chosen guardian of the kings and Arrhidaeus with him, and Antipater afterwards.
- How Antipater, being set up as supreme commander, divided the satrapies anew at Triparadeisus in Syria.
- How Antigonus, having been made general by Antipater, defeated Eumenes.

- About Eumenes, and the strange changes of fortune that befell him.
- How Ptolemy added Phoenicia and Coelê Syria to his domains.
- How Antigonus defeated Alcetas in a noteworthy engagement.

- The death of Antipater, and the taking over of the royal army by Polyperchon.
- How Antigonus, encouraged by the death of Antipater and by his own accomplishments, became a competitor for the throne.
- How Eumenes unexpectedly gained in power and took over both the guardian­ship of the kings and the command of the Macedonian army.

- The rise of Cassander and his war against Polyperchon, the guardian of the kings, and his co-operation with Antigonus.
- How Eumenes took over the Silver Shields in Cilicia, retired to the upper satrapies, and made ready for himself a considerable army.
- About the shrewdness and general­ship of Eumenes, and about his deeds up to his death.

- What happened in Attica in regard to Cassander and Nicanor, commander of the garrison at Munychia.
- The death of Phocion, called the Good.
- How Polyperchon besieged the people of Megalopolis, and, after many losses and successes, withdrew without accomplishing anything.

- How Cleitus, the admiral of Polyperchon, defeated Nicanor, the admiral of Cassander, in a naval battle.
- How Antigonus gained the supremacy on the sea by brilliantly defeating Cleitus in a naval battle.
- How Eumenes, although he had been surrounded near Babylon by Seleucus and was in extreme danger, was saved by his own shrewdness.

- How Polyperchon, although despised and humiliated by the Greeks, continued to fight against Cassander.




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