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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §15.arg.0

Table of Contents and Summary of Book 15

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Summary

The table of contents for Book 15 of Diodorus Siculus' Library of History, summarizing key historical events involving Greece, Persia, and Sicily in a list format.

§15.arg.0## τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῇ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ τῶν Διοδώρου βύβλων. ὡς Πέρσαι Εὐαγόραν ἐν τῇ Κύπρῳ διεπολέμησαν. ὡς Λακεδαιμόνιοι παρὰ τὰς κοινὰς ὁμολογίας Μαντινεῖς μετῴκισαν ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος. περὶ τῶν Διονυσίου τοῦ τυράννου ποιημάτων. περὶ τῆς Τιριβάζου συλλήψεως καὶ τῆς ἀπολύσεως αὐτοῦ. περὶ τοῦ Γλῶ θανάτου καὶ τῆς Ὀρόντου καταγνώσεως. ὡς Ἀμύντας καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι πρὸς Ὀλυνθίους ἐπολέμησαν. ὡς Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὴν Καδμείαν κατελάβοντο. ὡς τὰς Ἑλληνίδας πόλεις παρὰ τὰς συνθήκας κατεδουλώσαντο. κτίσις Φάρου νήσου κατὰ τὸν Ἀδρίαν. Διονυσίου στρατεία εἰς τὴν Τυρρηνίαν καὶ σύλησις τοῦ ἱεροῦ. στρατεία Διονυσίου ἐπὶ Καρχηδονίους, καὶ νίκη καὶ ἧττα. ὡς Θηβαῖοι τὴν Καδμείαν ἀνεκτήσαντο. ὡς Καρχηδόνιοι λοιμικῇ νόσῳ περιπεσόντες ἐκινδύνευσαν. περὶ τοῦ Βοιωτικοῦ πολέμου καὶ τῶν πραχθέντων ἐν αὐτῷ. Τριβαλλῶν στρατεία ἐπὶ Ἄβδηρα. στρατεία Περσῶν ἐπʼ Αἴγυπτον. ὡς Θηβαῖοι Λακεδαιμονίους ἐπιφανεστάτῃ μάχῃ νικήσαντες ἐν Λεύκτροις ἀντεποιήσαντο τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡγεμονίας. τὰ πραχθέντα Θηβαίοις κατὰ τὰς εἰς Πελοπόννησον εἰσβολάς. περὶ τῆς Ἰφικράτους ἀγωγῆς καὶ τῶν εὑρημένων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὰς στρατείας. στρατεία Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπὶ Κόρκυραν. περὶ τοῦ γενομένου σεισμοῦ καὶ κατακλυσμοῦ περὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον καὶ τῆς φανείσης ἐν οὐρανῷ λαμπάδος. ὡς παρὰ τοῖς Ἀργείοις ἐγένετο πολὺς φόνος ὁ κληθεὶς σκυταλισμός. περὶ Ἰάσονος τοῦ Φερῶν τυράννου καὶ τῶν διαδόχων αὐτοῦ. Μεσσήνης συνοικισμὸς ὑπὸ Θηβαίων. στρατεία Βοιωτῶν εἰς Θετταλίαν.
\n\n## The following are contained in the fifteenth of the books of Diodorus.\n\nHow the Persians waged war to the end against Evagoras in Cyprus.\nHow the Lacedaemonians, contrary to the common agreements, resettled the Mantineans from their homeland.\nConcerning the poems of the tyrant Dionysius.\nConcerning the arrest of Tiribazus and his release.\nConcerning the death of Glos and the condemnation of Orontes.\nHow Amyntas and the Lacedaemonians warred against the Olynthians.\nHow the Lacedaemonians seized the Kadmeia.\nHow they enslaved the Greek cities contrary to the treaties.\nThe founding of the island of Pharos in the Adriatic.\nDionysius' campaign into Tyrrhenia and the plundering of the temple.\nThe campaign of Dionysius against the Carthaginians, and both victory and defeat.\nHow the Thebans recovered the Kadmeia.\nHow the Carthaginians, having fallen into a pestilential disease, were in danger.\nConcerning the Boeotian War and the events that took place in it.\nThe campaign of the Triballi against Abdera.\nThe campaign of the Persians against Egypt.\nHow the Thebans, having defeated the Lacedaemonians in a most illustrious battle at Leuctra, laid claim to the hegemony of the Greeks.\nThe deeds performed by the Thebans during their invasions of the Peloponnese.\nConcerning the training of Iphicrates and the inventions made by him during the campaigns.\nThe campaign of the Lacedaemonians against Corcyra.\nConcerning the earthquake and deluge that occurred around the Peloponnese, and the torch that appeared in the heavens.\nHow among the Argives there occurred a great slaughter which was called 'skytalismos'.\nConcerning Jason the tyrant of Pherae and his successors.\nThe resettlement of Messene by the Thebans.\nThe campaign of the Boeotians into Thessaly.

Notes

  1. §15.arg.0ὡς — The adverb ὡς introduces indirect question clauses, serving to noun-phrase the summaries of historical events as 'how [such-and-such] happened' in the table of contents.
  2. §15.arg.0διεπολέμησαν — The third-person plural aorist active indicative of the compound verb διαπολεμέω (διά + πολεμέω). The prefix διά carries a perfective or intensive force meaning 'to the end' or 'thoroughly', indicating that they waged war against Evagoras completely to its conclusion.
  3. §15.arg.0ἀντεποιήσαντο — The third-person plural aorist middle of the middle-only verb ἀντιποιέομαι. This verb means 'to lay claim to' or 'strive for' and takes its object in the genitive case, here τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡγεμονίας ('the hegemony of the Greeks').
  4. §15.arg.0Θηβαίοις — A dative of agent functioning with the passive participle τὰ πραχθέντα ('the deeds performed'), and thus interpreted as 'the deeds performed by the Thebans'.

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §15.arg.0. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc4:15.arg.0

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