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Rethinking Diodorus' Library of History: Historiographical Theory and PRAXIS

Rethinking Diodorus' Library of History: Historiographical Theory and PRAXIS

Dudziński, Andrzej

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

Literary CriticismAncient History General

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 12, 2026

ISBN10: 1041376294
ISBN13: 9781041376293
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 12 2026
Pages: 192
Language: English

The book offers a reassessment of Diodorus Siculus' historiographical principles and their application in the Bibliotheke Historike, approached through systematic analysis of the text rather than assumptions about its author as a passive compiler.

Readers will gain a rigorous re-evaluation of how Diodorus conceived, organised and executed his universal history, including its genre, programme, polemical method, use of speeches, structural principles, and moral framework. Rather than relying on presumptions about the author to explain the text, the book analyses the Bibliotheke on its own terms across five thematic chapters before synthesising the findings into a revised portrait of Diodorus as a historian. By uniting philological precision with interpretive moderation, this study aims to bridge a long-standing divide in scholarship between the two sides of the modern debate on the author.

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