Date : 1995
Editeur / Publisher : [Bristol] : Bristol classical press , 1995, cop. 1995
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 1-85399-385-9
Oeuvre liée : Bibliothèque historique
Philippe -- II -- 0382?-0336 av. J.-C. -- roi de Macédoine -- Sources -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Diodore de Sicile (0090?-0020? av. J.-C.) -- Bibliothèque historique -- Anthologies -- Historiographie
Grèce -- 359-323 av. J.-C. (Expansion de la Macédoine) -- Sources -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Macédoine -- 359-336 av. J.-C. (Philippe II) -- Sources -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Collection : Classical studies series / gen. ed. John H. Betts / London : Bristol classical press , 1986-
Résumé / Abstract : This edition, one of the BCP Classics Companion Series, provides a translation and detailed commentary of the Greek and Macedonian narrative of Diodorus Book XVI. An outstanding general, statesman and diplomat, Philip II inherited a kingdom near collapse and transformed it into the greatest power in the Mediterranean world. But for all its significance, his reign is badly served by the surviving writers of Greek literature. The loss of the major contemporary historians has left us dependent for our knowledge on the speeches of the Attic orators, especially the hostile Demosthenes, and on the 16th Book of Diodorus Siculus, who though he lived some 300 years later, has bequeathed the only detailed account of Philip's reign in Macedonia and the Greek mainland.