Library of History
c. 60–30 BC
Bibliotheca Historica
Diodorus’s universal history. Book I (Booth) treats Egypt and the earliest ages; Book II (Oldfather) treats Ninus, Semiramis, and the Assyrian empire, with related Median and Chaldaean material.
Translated by G. Booth (Book I); C. H. Oldfather (Book II)
Book I: English by G. Booth (1814), via Wikisource. Book II: English by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library (1933), via LacusCurtius. Public domain.
Contents
Book II
- Chapter 1: Ninus, the first king in Asia
- Chapter 2: Ninus’s campaigns
- Chapter 3: Founding of Nineveh
- Chapter 4: Birth and rise of Semiramis
- Chapter 5: Semiramis and the Bactrian war
- Chapter 6: Ninus marries Semiramis
- Chapter 7: Semiramis succeeds Ninus; founding of Babylon
- Chapter 8: Building of Babylon continued
- Chapter 9: Walls and temples of Babylon
- Chapter 10: The hanging garden and wonders of Babylonia
- Chapter 11: Lake and other works
- Chapter 12: Further works in Media and elsewhere
- Chapter 13: Ecbatana and other foundations
- Chapter 14: Campaign against Egypt and Ethiopia
- Chapter 15: Campaign against India begun
- Chapter 16: Indian campaign continued
- Chapter 17: Indian campaign continued
- Chapter 18: Indian campaign continued
- Chapter 19: Defeat in India
- Chapter 20: Death of Semiramis; Ninyas
- Chapter 21: Later kings; luxury of the court
- Chapter 22: Sardanapallus introduced
- Chapter 23: Fall of Sardanapallus
- Chapter 24: Arbaces and Belesys
- Chapter 25: End of the Assyrian empire
- Chapter 26: Duration of the Assyrian empire
- Chapter 27: Median affairs
- Chapter 28: Arbaces as king
- Chapter 29: The Chaldaeans and the stars
- Chapter 30: Chaldaean learning
- Chapter 31: Further on Chaldaeans
- Chapter 32: Kings of Media; disagreement of historians
- Chapter 33: Median kings continued
- Chapter 34: Close of the Median account