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.

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.

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

Both Diodorus and Plutarch suggest he was quickly restored to the favour of the Athenians.

It should be noted that both Diodorus and Plutarch considered that the charges were false, and made solely for the purposes of destroying Themistocles.

Plutarch has the ship docking at Cyme in Aeolia, and Diodorus has Themistocles making his way to Asia in an undefined manner.

All three chroniclers agree that Themistocles's next move was to contact the Persian king ; in Thucydides, this is by letter, while Plutarch and Diodorus have a face-to-face meeting with the king.

The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.

Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba ' al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage ( see Interpretatio graeca for clarification ).

Of the two histories, we possess abridgments by Photius, and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second book is mainly from Ctesias.

In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure throughout the Graeco-Roman world and he was widely cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo ( who called Posidonius " the most learned of all philosophers of my time "), Cleomedes, Seneca the Younger, Diodorus Siculus ( who used Posidonius as a source for his Bibliotheca historia Library "), and others.

Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba ‘ al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage.

Timaeus was one of the chief authorities used by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch ( in his life of Timoleon ).

An account of the battle was mentioned both by Diodorus and Plutarch, both based heavily on the report by Ephorus.

The works of the latter two, however, survived long enough for later authors like Plutarch, Diodorus, and Polyaenus to base their works on.

Arrian, Diodorus, and Plutarch all mention the battle, with Arrian providing the most detail.

He translated seven books of Diodorus Siculus ( 1554 ), the Daphnis et Chloë of Longus ( 1559 ) and the Opera Moralia of Plutarch ( 1572 ).

:* ἀ. ἄστρων return of the stars to the same place in the heavens as in the former year, Plutarch 2. 937f, Diodorus Siculus 12. 36, etc.

In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion ( died in 324 BC ), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

Diodorus, probably following Timaeus, represents him as inducing the Syracusans to pass sentence of death on the captive Athenian generals, but there is also the statement of Philistus ( Plutarch, Nicias, 28 ), a Syracusan who himself took part in the defence, and Thucydides ( vii.

Cleitarchus claims that the destruction was a whim ; Plutarch and Diodorus recount that it was intended as retribution for Xerxes ' burning of the temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens in 480 BC ( the destroyed temple was replaced by the Parthenon of Athens ).

* A commentary on the burning of the palace at Persepolis including excerpts from Diodorus and Plutarch

According to Plutarch and Diodorus, Eumenes had won the battle but lost control of his army's baggage camp thanks to his ally Peucestas ' duplicity or incompetence.

Indeed in his very next section Diodorus brings in Asopus ' daughter Harpina who has been discussed above.

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.

Diodorus completes book XX of his Library at this point, saying that he will describe the battle between the Kings at the start of the next book.

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.

In the course of the next three years, Cersobleptes seems to have recovered strength sufficient to throw off the yoke, and, according to Diodorus, persisted in his attacks on the Greek cities on the Hellespont.

Greek sources such as Diodorus Siculus ' Library of History and Justin's Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum recount that Darius fled out of fear at the Battle of Issus and again two years later at the Battle of Gaugamela despite commanding a larger force in a defensive position each time.

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.

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

If similar amounts of land have been lost on other parts of the Solent shore, the Solent was likely much narrower in Roman times, and it is possible to believe Diodorus Siculus's report that in his time men could wade to the Isle of Wight at low tide.

Diodorus indicates Milo led the charge against the Sybarites wearing his Olympic crowns, draped in a lionskin and brandishing a club in a manner similar to the mythic hero Heracles ( see adjacent image ).

Other ancient sources ( i. e. Diodorus Siculus, Gaius Julius Hyginus, and Pseudo-Plutarch ) have similar information on Iole with additional variations.

Diodorus Siculus also wrote something similar about how he believed the Babylonians fabricated their chronology:

He records that a similar phenomenon was reported in Africa by Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian writing in the 1st century B. C., and that the Rhegium Fata Morgana was described by Damascius, a Greek Philosopher of the sixth century A. D.

In Ctesias ' tale ( reported by Diodorus ) the war originated from an offence the king gave to an able powerful Persian, called Parsodes.

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.

" Indeed, Diodorus goes so far as to say that " But if any man, putting envy aside, will estimate closely not only the man's natural gifts but also his achievements, he will find that on both counts Themistocles holds first place among all of whom we have record.

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.