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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §5.arg.0

Table of Contents: Islands, Myths, and Peoples

Passage 322 of 406 · Greek

Summary

This chunk is the table of contents for Book 5 of Diodorus' Library of History, presenting a list of chapters that deal with various islands in the Mediterranean and the Ocean, their myths, and the customs of their inhabitants.

§5.arg.0τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῇ πέμπτῃ τῶν Διοδώρου βίβλων.
The following are contained in the fifth of the books of Diodorus.
περὶ τῶν μυθολογουμένων κατὰ τὴν Σικελίαν καὶ τοῦ σχήματος καὶ μεγέθους τῆς νήσου.
Concerning the myths told in Sicily, and the shape and size of the island.
περὶ Δήμητρος καὶ Κόρης καὶ τῆς εὑρέσεως τοῦ πυρίνου καρποῦ.
Concerning Demeter and Kore, and the discovery of the fruit of wheat.
περὶ Λιπάρας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν Αἰολίδων καλουμένων νήσων.
Concerning Lipara and the other islands called the Aeolian Islands.
περὶ Μελίτης καὶ Γαύλου καὶ Κερκίνης.
Concerning Melite, Gaulos, and Cercina.
περὶ τῆς Αἰθαλίας καὶ Κύρνου καὶ Σαρδόνος.
Concerning Aethalia, Cyrnus, and Sardon.
περὶ Πιτυούσσης καὶ τῶν νήσων τῶν Γυμνησίων, ἅς τινες Βαλιαρίδας ὀνομάζουσι.
Concerning Pityussa and the Gymnesian islands, which some call the Balearic Islands.
περὶ τῶν ἐν ὠκεανῷ νήσων τῶν πρὸς ἑσπέραν κειμένων.
Concerning the islands in the ocean which lie to the west.
περὶ τῆς Βρεττανικῆς νήσου καὶ τῆς ὀνομαζομένης Βασιλείας καθʼ ἣν τὸ ἤλεκτρον γίνεται.
Concerning the island of Britain, and the island called Basileia where amber is found.
περὶ Γαλατίας καὶ Κελτιβηρίας, ἔτι δʼ Ἰβηρίας καὶ Λιγυστικῆς καὶ Τυρρηνίας, καὶ τῶν ἐν ταύταις κατοικούντων, τίσι χρῶνται νομίμοις.
Concerning Galatia and Celtiberia, and further Iberia, Liguria, and Tyrrhenia, and the inhabitants of these lands, and what customs they practice.
περὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν μεσημβρίαν ἐν ὠκεανῷ νήσων, τῆς τε Ἱερᾶς ὀνομαζομένης καὶ τῆς Παγχαίας, καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐταῖς ἱστορουμένων.
Concerning the islands in the ocean towards the south, both the one called Sacred and Panchaea, and the history related concerning them.
περὶ Σαμοθρᾴκης καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ μυστηρίων.
Concerning Samothrace and the mysteries therein.
περὶ Νάξου καὶ Σύμης καὶ Καλύδνης.
Concerning Naxos, Syme, and Calydna.
περὶ Ῥόδου καὶ τῶν κατʼ αὐτὴν μυθολογουμένων.
Concerning Rhodes and the myths related concerning it.
περὶ Χερρονήσου τῆς ἀντιπέραν τῆς Ῥοδίας κειμένης.
Concerning the Chersonese which lies opposite the territory of Rhodes.
περὶ Κρήτης καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ μυθολογουμένων μέχρι τῶν νεωτέρων καιρῶν.
Concerning Crete and the myths related concerning it down to more recent times.
περὶ Λέσβου καὶ τῶν εἰς Χίον καὶ Σάμον καὶ Κῶν καὶ Ῥόδον ἀποικιῶν ὑπὸ Μακαρέως.
Concerning Lesbos, and the colonies sent to Chios, Samos, Cos, and Rhodes by Macareus.
περὶ Τενέδου καὶ τοῦ κατʼ αὐτὴν οἰκισμοῦ καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ Τενεδίων περὶ Τέννου μυθευομένων.
Concerning Tenedos and its settlement, and the myths told by the Tenedians concerning Tennes.
περὶ τῶν Κυκλάδων νήσων τῶν ἐλαττόνων οἰκισμοῦ ὑπὸ Μίνωος.
Concerning the settlement of the smaller of the Cyclades islands by Minos.

Notes

  1. §5.arg.0τίσι χρῶνται νομίμοις — It forms an indirect question clause where the interrogative adjective τίσι modifies the noun νομίμοις, logically connected to the description of 'the inhabitants' (τῶν κατοικούντων). The verb χράομαι governs the dative case (νομίμοις).
  2. §5.arg.0τῶν ἐλαττόνων — The comparative ἐλαττόνων with the article modifies the noun (νήσων), expressing a restrictive nuance: 'the relatively smaller islands' (among the Cyclades as a whole).
  3. §5.arg.0τῶν ὑπὸ Τενεδίων περὶ Τέννου μυθευομένων — It is a typical attributive structure where the agent ὑπὸ Τενεδίων (by the Tenedians) and the topic περὶ Τέννου (concerning Tennes) are sandwiched between the article τῶν and the present passive participle μυθευομένων (things told/myths), which functions as a neuter plural noun.

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