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.

Finally, according to the tradition recorded by Herodotus and Diodorus, Amenemhet III built the northern gate of the Temple of Ptah.

Aelian, Diodorus Siculus and Stephen of Byzantium all recorded important ancient Greek sources on Hyperborea, but added no new descriptions.

A great naval battle was recorded a year after the establishment of Pharos colony, by a Greek inscription in Pharos ( 384 – 383 BC ) and by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus ( 80 – 29 BC ), initiated by conflicts between The Greek colonizers and the indigenous islanders of Hvar island, who asked their compatriots for a support.

This story was recorded by the ancient historians Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, in " Library of History " and " The History of Alexander ", respectively.

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.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

Ctesias ( as known from Diodorus ) also related that after the death of Ninus, his widow Semiramis, who was rumored to have murdered Ninus, erected to him a temple-tomb, 9 stadia high and 10 stadia broad, near Babylon, where the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Πύραμος ; Θίσβη ) was later based.

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.

Edwards ( 1974 ) states that " the legend, which is obviously filled with anachronisms, is patently devoid of historical value ", but Maspero ( 1910 ), while acknowledging the possibility that traditions relating to other kings may have become mixed up with this story, dismisses the suggestions of some commentators that the story should be transferred to the Dynasty XII pharaoh Amenemhat III and sees no reason to doubt that Diodorus did not correctly record a tradition of Menes.

The most popular story explaining the murder comes from Diodorus Siculus, who expanded upon its mention by Aristotle.

Diodorus ' story of Dromichaetes ' banquet for his royal prisoner is probably a literary device, contrasting Macedonian opulence with Thracian frugality.

According to a story of Aristotle's, lengthened by Cleitarchus and Diodorus Siculus, Attalus sexually assaulted Pausanias of Orestis in retribution for besmirching the reputation of Attalus's friend ( possibly relation ), also named Pausanias, an event that led to the latter Pausanias's death.

Diodorus Siculus stated that Menes had introduced the worship of the gods and the practice of sacrifice as well as a more elegant and luxurious style of living.

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.

According to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal.

Diodorus Siculus related that they once became friends with Androgeos, a son of Minos, and that was why Aegeus had Androgeos assassinated, fearing that Pallas and his sons could use this friendship to get assistance from the powerful Minos against him.

See Diodorus Cronus for the classical Master Argument related to the problem of future contingents.

The chronology of the events related by Nepos is also very obscure ; but according to that author and Diodorus it would appear that Datames must have died before Artaxerxes, probably 362 BC.

The city was of Siculian origin, and its foundation is related by Diodorus, who informs us that in 403 BCE the inhabitants of Herbita ( a Siculian city ), having concluded peace with Dionysius I of Syracuse, their ruler or chief magistrate Archonides determined to quit the city and found a new colony, which he settled partly with citizens of Herbita, and partly with mercenaries and other strangers who collected around him through enmity towards Dionysius.

Diodorus calls him Spithrobates, and appears to confound him with Mithridates, the son-in-law of Darius, whom Alexander slew in the battle with his own hand ; while what Arrian records of Spithridates is related by Diodorus of his brother Rhoesaces.