Library Diodorus Siculus Library of History

Chapter 12: Further works in Media and elsewhere

Diodorus’s Assyrian narrative here follows Ctesias’s Persica (Ninus and Semiramis). Ctesias does not use the name Nimrod.

Now concerning the wonders of Babylonia let what has been said suffice.

Book I: English by G. Booth (1814), via Wikisource. Book II: English by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library (1933), via LacusCurtius. Public domain.