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.

In most accounts of this event, Helen was quite young ; Hellanicus of Lesbos said she was seven years old and Diodorus makes her ten years old.

Diodorus, on the contrary, describes the spot whence Proserpine was carried off as a meadow abounding in flowers, especially odoriferous ones, to such a degree that it was impossible for hounds to follow their prey by the scent across this tract: he speaks of it as enclosed on all sides by steep cliffs, and having groves and marshes in the neighborhood, but makes no mention of a lake.

Epictetus ' description of the Master Argument is not in the form as it would have been presented by Diodorus, which makes it difficult to know the precise nature of his argument.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

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 ).

An identically composed trio had other names at Samothrace, according to Diodorus Siculus: Elektra and her two sons, Dardanos and Eetion or Iasion.

Pausanias ( 5. 22. 1 ) and Diodorus Siculus ( 4. 73. 1 ) also mention a daughter Harpina and state that according to the traditions of the Eleans and Phliasians Ares lay with her in the city of Pisa and she bore him Oenomaus who Pausanias says ( 6. 21. 6 ) founded the city of Harpina named after her, not far from the river Harpinates.

In Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus wrote, " Polyhymnia, because by her great ( polle ) praises ( humnesis ) she brings distinction to writers whose works have won for them immortal fame ...".

In Diodorus, Eriphyle persuades her son to join the attackers because she is bribed by Thersander to do so in exchange for the robe of Harmonia, just as she was bribed by Polynices with the necklace of Harmonia to send her husband into battle.

The legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, Justin and others from Ctesias of Cnidus make a picture of her and her relationship to King Ninus, himself a mythical king of Assyria, not attested in the Assyrian King List.

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.

Antoninus Liberalis uses Lamia as an alternate name for the serpentine drakaina Sybaris ; however, Diodorus Siculus describes her as having nothing more than a distorted face.

The purpose of this ability is unclear in Diodorus, but other versions state Lamia's ability to remove her eyes came with the gift of prophecy.

12. 1. 2 ) who used a derivative of ἐκτιθημι to describe a ‘ particular account, with great exactness ’ that he will give about the Arabians and Ishmael, and Diodorus Siculus who used a derivative of ἐκτιθημι to describe the outline of a proposed change to the law, given before a court, by a penniless orphan heiress who wished her next of kin to marry her ( Hist.

According to Corinna and Diodorus Siculus, Sinope was seized by the god Apollo and carried over to the place where later stood the city honouring her name.

The Greeks, such as Herodotus, Plato and Diodorus Siculus, identified her with Athena and hence postulated a primordial link to Athens.