Diodorus Siculus's Library of History

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_documents
gptkbp:author	gptkb:Diodorus_Siculus
gptkbp:citation	later historians
gptkbp:contains	accounts of Greece accounts of Persia accounts of Carthage accounts of Egypt accounts of India accounts of Rome accounts of Sicily accounts of mythological events
gptkbp:coversPeriod	mythical times to 60 BCE
gptkbp:dateWritten	1st century BCE
gptkbp:firstPrintedEditionLanguage	gptkb:Greek
gptkbp:firstPrintedEditionLocation	Basel
gptkbp:firstPublished	1539
gptkbp:genre	universal history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Diodorus Siculus's Library of History
gptkbp:importantFor	insight into ancient historiography source for lost works
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Timaeus gptkb:Ephorus gptkb:Polybius Herodotus
gptkbp:locationOfComposition	gptkb:Alexandria gptkb:Rome
gptkbp:notableFor	comprehensive scope preservation of lost sources
gptkbp:numberOfBooks	40
gptkbp:originalLanguage	gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:preservedIn	gptkb:Photius gptkb:Constantine_Porphyrogenitus manuscripts
gptkbp:structure	chronological
gptkbp:subject	mythology ancient history world history
gptkbp:survivingWorks	Books 1–5 and 11–20
gptkbp:title	gptkb:Bibliotheca_historica gptkb:Βιβλιοθήκη_Ἱστορική
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:French gptkb:German gptkb:Latin English
gptkbp:usedBy	gptkb:Renaissance_humanists Byzantine
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Labours_of_Heracles gptkb:The_Twelve_Labors_of_Hercules
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6