She is often now popularly described as the mermaid-goddess, from her fish-bodied appearance at Ashkelon and in Diodorus Siculus — a widely accessible source — but which is by no means her universal appearance.

The final major existing source for the period is the universal history ( Bibliotheca historica ) of the 1st century BC Sicilian, Diodorus Siculus.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

Pytheas described his travels in a work that has not survived ; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and passages in Diodorus of Sicily's history.

Subsequent Greek historians — such as Ctesias, Diodorus, Strabo, Polybius and Plutarch — held up Thucydides ' writings as a model of truthful history.

According to the sixteenth book of Diodorus ' history, Pausanias had been a lover of Philip, but became jealous when Philip turned his attention to a younger man, also called Pausanias.

Diodorus Siculus ( Diodoros Sikeliotes ) was a Greek historian, who wrote works of history between 60 and 30 BC.

Only Jerome, in his Chronicon under the " year of Abraham 1968 " ( i. e., 49 BC ), writes, " Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious ".

Finally Diodorus ignores many other events in early Roman history such all the early years of the Second Samnite War, his omission of the First Samnite War can therefore not be taken as proof of its unhistoricity.

Diodorus was probably following the history of Ephorus at this point, who in turn was presumably influenced by his teacher Isocrates — from whom there is the earliest reference to the supposed peace, in 380 BC.

Diodorus Siculus is the principal source for the history of the Diadochi, in his ' Library of history ' ( Bibliotheca historica ).

Diodorus worked primarily by epitomizing the works of other historians, omitting many details where they did not suit his purpose, which was to illustrate moral lessons from history However, since Diodorus provides the only continuous narrative for the history of the Diadochi, we have no alternative but to rely on his account.

# All writers of Greek and Roman antiquities tell us that Saturn, the first of his kind, was a man: Nepos knows this, and Cassius in history, as well as Thallus and Diodorus, say this.

For the writers on Athenian history, Hellanicus and Philochorus ( who wrote Atthis ) and writers on Syrian affairs, Castor and Thallus, and writers on world affairs, Diodorus ( who wrote the Library ) and Alexander Polyhistor, and some of our contemporaries record these events even more accurately than all the Attic historians.

The most detailed account is provided by two fragments from the history of Diodorus Siculus.

The two fragments of Diodorus ' history suggest two separate campaigns.

Diodorus Siculus ( i. 46. 8 ) tells us that Hecataeus visited Thebes in the times of Ptolemy I Soter, and composed a history of Egypt.

He wrote a history of the Diadochi and their descendants, embracing the period from the death of Alexander to the war with Pyrrhus ( 323 – 272 BC ), which is one of the chief authorities used by Diodorus Siculus ( xviii .- xx.

The next major point in the history of the district was the Battle of the Hydaspes between Alexander the Great and the local ruler, Porus. Abisares ( or Abhisara ; in Greek Αβισαρης ), called Embisarus ( Eμβισαρoς ) by Diodorus, was an Indian king of abhira descent beyond the river Hydaspes, whose territory lay in the mountains, sent embassies to Alexander the Great both before and after the conquest of Porus in 326 BC, although inclined to espouse the side of the latter.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

Eubulides is most famous for inventing the forms of seven famous paradoxes, some of which, however, are also ascribed to Diodorus Cronus:

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

Also the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus who flourished between 60 BCE and 30 BCE writes about the isolated region of Arabia in his work Bibliotheca historica describing a holy shrine that Muslims see as referring to the Kaaba at Mecca " And a temple has been set-up there, which is very holy and exceedingly revered by all Arabians ".

Diodorus Siculus gives another version of the myth in which Osiris was described as an ancient king who taught the Egyptians the arts of civilization, including agriculture, then travelled the world with his sister Isis, the satyrs, and the nine muses, before finally returning to Egypt.

Beyond by four days ' sail is another promontory, Belerion, which can only be Cornwall, as Diodorus is describing the triangular perimeter and the third point is Orkas, presumably the main island of the Orkney Islands.

Megasthenes wrote detailed descriptions of India and Chandragupta's reign, which have been partly preserved to us through Diodorus Siculus.

Diodorus also extensively praises Themistocles, going as far as to offer a rationale for the length at which he discusses him: " Now on the subject of the high merits of Themistocles, even if we have dwelt over-long on the subject in this digression, we believed it not seemly that we should leave his great ability unrecorded.

Diodorus provides a rhetorical summary which reflects upon Themistocles's achievements:

The historian Diodorus Siculus relates a tradition that Hercules, in the performance of his labors, passed through the country of nearby Cumae on his way to Sicily and found there a place called " the Phlegraean Plain " ( phlegraion pedion, " plain of fire "), " from a hill which anciently vomited out fire ... now called Vesuvius.

One late explanation, which is first related by the 1st century BC writer, Diodorus Siculus, tells of a goat herder named Coretas, who noticed one day that one of his goats, who fell into a crack in the earth, was behaving strangely.

Diodorus Cronus defined the possible as that which either is or will be, the impossible as what will not be true, and the contingent as that which either is already, or will be false.

The wedding was the first celebrated on Earth to which the gods brought gifts, according to Diodorus and dined with Cadmus and his bride.

The citizens were divided, as we learn from Diodorus, into ten tribes, the names of which sufficiently indicate their origin.

Of Isemenus, Diodorus states only that he emigrated to Boeotia and settled near the Boeotian river which was afterwards called Ismenus from his name.

Diodorus Siculus felt that Apollo must have repented this " excessive " deed, and said that he had laid aside his lyre for a while, but Karl Kerenyi observes of the flaying of Marsyas ' " shaggy hide: a penalty which will not seem especially cruel if one assumes that Marsyas ' animal guise was merely a masquerade.

Diodorus Siculus, gives a slightly different version of the story, saying that an oracle had been given to Althaemenes which said that he was destined to kill his father.

To which are added the fragments of Diodorus, and those published by H. Valesius, I. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus.

In a mythic fragment that explains the connection of early Cretan culture with the island of Rhodes as deriving from Crete, Diodorus Siculus briefly relates that five of the Kuretes sailed from Crete to the Chersonnese ( peninsula ) opposite Rhodes, with a notable expedition, expelled the Carians who dwelt there, and settling down in the land divided it into five parts, each of them founding a city, which he named after himself.

According to Diodorus the mythical singer Linus took three pupils: Heracles, Thamyris, and Orpheus, which neatly settles Thamyris's legendary chronology.

Diodorus Siculus reports that Seleucus also conquered other nearby areas, which might refer to Persis, Aria or Parthia.

Problems with the chronology of Diodorus have led to uncertainty as to the year in which he died.