Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

* Diodorus Siculus xix., xxi., xxii.

Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three ( although it is clear he also became muddled ), and his opinion is followed here.

* Ancient Atlantis Texts: Plato, Diodorus Siculus, et al.

; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.

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.

The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus.

* Diodorus Siculus, Library

The historian Diodorus Siculus ( fl.

The historian Diodorus Siculus ( fl.

Pytheas's account was noted later by other writers including Pliny the Elder and Diodorus Siculus.

The more usual term in Antiquity is ( Hellēnogalátai ) of Diodorus Siculus ' Biblioteca historica v. 32. 5, in a passage that is translated "... and were called Gallo-Graeci because of their connection with the Greeks ", identifying Galatia in the Greek East as opposed to Gallia in the West.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Homer had even visited Egypt.

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.

* Diodorus Siculus iv.

Others have identified the island as Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

According to the " travels of Hercules " theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed through the area.

" In addition to the Judeo-Roman or Judeo-Hellenic historians Artapanus, Eupolemus, Josephus, and Philo, a few non-Jewish historians including Hecataeus of Abdera ( quoted by Diodorus Siculus ), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make reference to him.

All that remains of his description of Moses are two references made by Diodorus Siculus, wherein, writes historian Arthur Droge, " he describes Moses as a wise and courageous leader who left Egypt and colonized Judaea.

The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive of any in Ancient Egypt, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus.

To reconcile the contradictory aspects of his character, as well as to explain how Minos governed Crete over a period spanning so many generations, two kings of the name of Minos were assumed by later poets and rationalizing mythologists, such as Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch — " putting aside the mythological element ", as he claims — in his life of Theseus.

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 ".

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

Diodorus Siculus gives a similar number: 42500 stadia, about 4830 miles, and explains that it is the perimeter of a triangle around Britain.

Diodorus Siculus ( 4. 72 ) who, as mentioned, places his Asopus in Phlius, gives him twelve daughters.

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.

Diodorus Siculus gives additional at this point that it was Heracles himself that drove off the mares of Eurytus in revenge.

Diodorus Siculus states that there were twenty of them, but gives no individual names.

Theramenes also appears in several ancient narrative histories: Thucydides ' account includes the beginnings of Theramenes ' career, and Xenophon, picking up where Thucydides left off, gives a detailed account of several episodes from Theramenes career ; Diodorus Siculus, probably drawing his account from Ephorus at most points, provides another account that varies widely from Xenophon's at several points.

Diodorus gives an account of Xanthippus ' death.

Diodorus gives a somewhat different account of the foundation of Thermae, which he represents as established by the Carthaginians themselves before the close of the war, in 407 BCE.

Diodorus gives our only account of the captivity and subsequent release of Lysimachus.

Diodorus gives a graphic account how the Ashvakayanas conducted themselves when faced with the sudden onslaught from Alexander:

The statue may also provide evidence to corroborate ancient accounts of the Gallic fighting style – Diodorus Siculus reported that " Some use iron breast-plates in battle, while others fight naked, trusting only in the protection which nature gives.

Diodorus gives a detailed graphic picture as to how the Aśvakayanas ( Kambojs ) had conducted themselves when faced with the sudden treacherous onslaught from Alexander.

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.

Diodorus Siculus calls Chloris his daughter, but the other accounts of her parentage identify her father as another Amphion, the ruler of Minyan Orchomenus ( see below ).

The ancient historian Diodorus claims ( in addition to his renarration of Herodotus ' story ) that Khufu was so much abhorred within his own folks, that the mortuary priests secretly brought the royal sarcophagus, together with the corpse of Khufu, to another, hidden grave.

( Diodorus mentions another dictatorship in 313 BC, but this is probably mistaken.

Agis, who was desperate for a victory to redeem his embarrassment at Argos, charged ahead ; but according to Thucydides, when the armies had closed to a stone's throw, " one of the elder Spartans " ( the xymboulos Pharax, according to Diodorus ) advised him not to try to correct one error ( his former defeat ) with another.

Pappus himself mentions another commentary of his own on the Ἀνάλημμα ( Analemma ) of Diodorus of Alexandria.

The date given by Diodorus is 446 BC, but in another passus the same author says that Ducetius colonised Kale Akte in 440 BCE, the same year he died.

The latter period, however, was divided into " seasons ", or quarters of a year, and reduces to 214½ years ( another conversion attested to by Diodorus ).

Diodorus says that more than 1, 000 Athenians died in the battle, with another 2, 000 taken prisoner, and that the Thebans fared similarly.

The name must indeed have been much more ancient, since Diodorus, in another passage, speaks of the Bruttians as having expelled the remainder of the Sybarites, who had settled on the river Traeis after the destruction of their own city.

According to one account, he engaged in dialectic encounters with Diodorus Cronus at the court of Ptolemy Soter ; according to another, he did not comply with the invitation of the king, to go to Alexandria.

Diodorus ( ii. 47. 1-2 ) and Apollonius of Rhodes tell of another work by Hecataeus, On the Hyperboreans.