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

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

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Contents of the Eleventh Book of Diodorus:
- On the crossing of Xerxes into Europe.
- On the battle of Thermopylae.
- On the naval battle which Xerxes fought against the Greeks.

- How Themistocles outgeneralled Xerxes and the Greeks conquered the barbarians in the naval battle of Salamis.
- How Xerxes, leaving Mardonius behind as commander, withdrew with a portion of his army to Asia.
- How the Carthaginians with great armaments made war upon Sicily.

- How Gelon, after outgeneralling the barbarians, slew some of them and took others captive.
- How Gelon, when the Carthaginians sued for peace, exacted money of them and then concluded the peace.
- Judgement passed on the Greeks who distinguished themselves in the war.

- The battle of the Greeks against Mardonius and the Persians about Plataea and the victory of the Greeks.
- The war which the Romans waged against the Aequi and the inhabitants of Tusculum.
- On the construction of the Peiraeus by Themistocles.

- On the aid which king Hiero dispatched to the Cymaeans.
- On the war which arose between the Tarantini and the Iapyges.
- How Thrasydaeus, the son of Theron and tyrant of the Acragantini, was defeated by the Syracusans and lost his overlord­ship.

- How Themistocles, who had fled for safety to Xerxes and was put on trial for his life, was set at liberty.
- How the Athenians freed the Greek cities throughout Asia.
- On the earthquake that occurred in Laconia.

- On the revolt of the Messenians and Helots against the Lacedaemonians.
- How the Argives razed Mycenae to the ground and made the city desolate.
- How the Syracusans overthrew the royal line of Gelon.

- How Xerxes was slain by treachery and Artaxerxes became king.
- On the revolt of the Egyptians against the Persians.
- On the civil discords which took place among the Syracusans.

- How the Athenians defeated in war the Aeginetans and Corinthians.
- How the Phocians made war on the Dorians.
- How Myronides the Athenian with a few soldiers defeated the Boeotians who far outnumbered them.

- On the campaign of Tolmides against Cephallenia.
- On the war in Sicily between the Egestaeans and Lilybaeans.
- On the framing of the law of petalism by the Syracusans.

- The campaign of Pericles against the Peloponnesus.
- The campaign of the Syracusans against Tyrrhenia.
- On the Palici, as they are called, in Sicily.

- On the defeat of Ducetius and his astounding escape from death.




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