Diodorus was a "source guide" for Robert E Howard, in his creation of the prehistoric European world of Conan the Barbarian, which is why I first sought him out, in translation, as a pre-teen... (he also used Bullfinch...) - and yes, more Diodorus...
I love how precocious readers always find the classics in the most unpretentious ways. I took my first stab at Homer as a child because of an episode of Duck Tales that I loved.
As a lover of the classics and a big fanboy of Rome and Greece i love this channel and the content you do love the illiad and the Odyssey those 2 books got me through my time on ship in the Navy this channel has given ne some new names to look up and read soooo ... Thanks ❤❤❤
30 years ago i got the Loeb VII Diodorus an a way to connect Thucydides and Xenophon's histories with Alexander. Just a week ago i found a collection that includes Diodorus i to xv! And here now you are, another fellow classic who knows of Diodorus!! :D
Thank you for these informative videos. ✨😊✨ Speaking of Greek myths getting grounded in a modern context, this is the first I heard of that retelling of _Jason and the Argonauts_ . 😮 I do know the retelling of _The Odyssey_ in _Epic: The Musical_ . Its song “Warrior of the Mind” reminds me of this channel, actually. 😊
When it comes to ancient history, what is absolutely true isn't nearly as important as what people of the time believed was true. It's easier to make sense of their motivations.
I would love to add these books to my small library but wow....I was not expecting it to be that large of a set. I'll have to read online translations first but his work sounds incredible.
I am so sorry for being away from your amazing videos as I have been in hospital again with a severe heart condition ❤❤❤prayers and blessings for you and your family love 🥰 your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
Don't overlook George Antheil, the modernist composer, who collaborated with Hedy to invent the frequency hopping patent. They used a piano roll as an inspiration. I have Antheil's "Ballet meccanique."
@@kaloarepo288 It's a quote from the film Blazing Saddles (1974), the villain is called Hedley Lamarr but is mistakenly called Hedy, his reply is 'It's HEDLEY'. Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest films ever made and I would recommend watching it.
Poggio Bracciolini (short arms, affectionately known as T Rex) in 1472 "translated" the works of Diodorus into Latin. Remarkably, Poggio "translated" huge amounts of "ancient" works that he "found" in monasteries around Europe. He got paid by the Medicis and made tons of money doing it. He also "found" and "translated" the works of Tacitus. Sadly in 1875, John Wilson Ross wrote Tacitus and Bracciolini, the annals forged in the XVth century, in which he outrageously claimed that Poggio forged the works of Tacitus. To add to my sadness, in 1885 Par Hochart wrote De l'authenticite des annales and des histories de Tacite, in which he claimed old Poggio forged the works of Tacitus. Who could doubt our history? Certainly not the many departments of Roman history in universities around the world.
Great bit of additional wood for the fireplace! A little bit of Sicilian driftwood if you will. A nice addition for the tales around the fires of history, I thank you for the introduction. 🌎✌️🌍
"Where there's smoke there's a fire" in history benefits from "but hard to know if smoke, fog, or windborne dust" It is also wild to think that EVERY copy of the text was done bu hand. Every book was a full scroll of papyrus
Historicizing myth is mentioned in Plato's Republic, where they discussed creating history where gaps exist and in earlier times when there were no historians. In these instances fabricating history was allowed. Invoking Gods with the history would be used to make the account authoritative.
Yeah, I had a friend ask me to find them a copy of one of the books for reference. By the time I'd found it, they had forgotten who he was. Maybe there was a Diodorus Effect where even the people who knew who he was forgot about him?
Diodorus Siculus is one of the most prominent historians when it comes to Alexander the Great and Dyonasis I of Syracuse to name a few, for a man of his era, mythology was historical. Thank you for the video, I wouldn't ask the author if she speaks italian, ma u sicilianu u para?!
Diodorous could be the first one you go with BUT skip books 1-5 unless you like mythology 11-15 are a really good summary of greek history and it's easier to get the general narrative than reading Herodotus who goes off on tangents every 5 seconds or Thucydides who gets bogged down in details or Xenophon who refuses to mention some major figures because he had beef with them The philip-alexander chapters are the only continuous source we've got for the stuff AFTER Alex died! It cuts off a bit early but still, nowhere else to go!
From the point of view of a Historian, Diodorus’ biggest drawback is that large portions of his work are directly copied out of more famous historians such as Thucydides and Zenophon.
@@gabrielidesantonis Cool, but I was hoping for real flying serpents like Amaruca, which translates to Land of the Plumed Serpent in Mayan. America is literally named for DRAGONS.
If you could travel back to ancient times for a look, what and when would you want to see? I'm thinking the library at Alexandria before it's fiery end.
Hello! If this video isn’t for you, that’s okay. There are lots of other history channels on TH-cam that would probably suit you better. Thanks for giving my channel a go (but I’m not thanking you for the unnecessarily rude comment 😇).
@MoAnInc please,you're the rude one for unnecessarily bloviating to extend a video. Its a waste of time,nor did I search you out. It was in the feed. 1:30 is the tip top of where people should start over that is taking a video with no or little substance and stretching it. Usually Ill just stop it and click not to show the channel,but however rude I was. The intent was being helpful in a rude way back for the rudeness of bloviating.
Diodorus was a "source guide" for Robert E Howard, in his creation of the prehistoric European world of Conan the Barbarian, which is why I first sought him out, in translation, as a pre-teen... (he also used Bullfinch...) - and yes, more Diodorus...
I love how precocious readers always find the classics in the most unpretentious ways. I took my first stab at Homer as a child because of an episode of Duck Tales that I loved.
Don’t worry. I will be all about that stuff. Just gotta be patient
CooL
Thank you for the intro to Diodorus. I wasn't familiar with the man. My favorite channel, by far...🎸🎸🎸
As a lover of the classics and a big fanboy of Rome and Greece i love this channel and the content you do love the illiad and the Odyssey those 2 books got me through my time on ship in the Navy this channel has given ne some new names to look up and read soooo ... Thanks ❤❤❤
Thanks for this video. I was certainly missing something that you enlightened me about.
never heard of this guy, a great upload to illuminate some ancient shadows!
Thrilled you’ve left with another ancient author under your belt!! 🤓
It's been a while since the lovely & delightful Erica popped up in my TH-cam feed. Glad to see you again Eric ❤.
Thank you for watching!
For some reason I never read his work.. really going to put it on my top read laat, thank you! :)
I am really enjoying these context videos. I especially needed some context for Diodorus. It all makes sense now.
Maltese fellow here. I see Sicilian roots and I salute you cousin.
30 years ago i got the Loeb VII Diodorus an a way to connect Thucydides and Xenophon's histories with Alexander. Just a week ago i found a collection that includes Diodorus i to xv! And here now you are, another fellow classic who knows of Diodorus!! :D
Yay a new one! I like watching your vids, they are fun and super informative 👍🏼✨
Thank you for these informative videos. ✨😊✨ Speaking of Greek myths getting grounded in a modern context, this is the first I heard of that retelling of _Jason and the Argonauts_ . 😮 I do know the retelling of _The Odyssey_ in _Epic: The Musical_ . Its song “Warrior of the Mind” reminds me of this channel, actually. 😊
Well Done. Enjoyed your video. Good to have more historian channels.
Great video and I loved the comic relief at the beginning!
Diodorus Siculus is so on brand that he doesn't even get his literal 15 minutes of fame! And a mystery solved! The most British Sicilian!
When it comes to ancient history, what is absolutely true isn't nearly as important as what people of the time believed was true. It's easier to make sense of their motivations.
I would love to add these books to my small library but wow....I was not expecting it to be that large of a set. I'll have to read online translations first but his work sounds incredible.
Diodorus is....definitely Sicilian. Given he spends half of every book on "wtf happened in Sicily at that time"
How often does he talk about food?
I hope you get round to doing a context video on Dio Cassius sometime .
"My mission is to make everyone a nerd!"
Challenge Accepted!!!😁😁
I am so sorry for being away from your amazing videos as I have been in hospital again with a severe heart condition ❤❤❤prayers and blessings for you and your family love 🥰 your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
Where the hell were the girls like you in my classics/ancient history department in college!?!
If only Instagram had existed back then!
Beauty and brains...like Heddy Lamar.
Ha ha ha… you nailed it. A man who knows recent history!
Don't overlook George Antheil, the modernist composer, who collaborated with Hedy to invent the frequency hopping patent. They used a piano roll as an inspiration. I have Antheil's "Ballet meccanique."
It's HEDLEY!!!
@@johnmcintosh8673 Hedy Lamarr
@@kaloarepo288 It's a quote from the film Blazing Saddles (1974), the villain is called Hedley Lamarr but is mistakenly called Hedy, his reply is 'It's HEDLEY'. Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest films ever made and I would recommend watching it.
Poggio Bracciolini (short arms, affectionately known as T Rex) in 1472 "translated" the works of Diodorus into Latin. Remarkably, Poggio "translated" huge amounts of "ancient" works that he "found" in monasteries around Europe. He got paid by the Medicis and made tons of money doing it. He also "found" and "translated" the works of Tacitus. Sadly in 1875, John Wilson Ross wrote Tacitus and Bracciolini, the annals forged in the XVth century, in which he outrageously claimed that Poggio forged the works of Tacitus. To add to my sadness, in 1885 Par Hochart wrote De l'authenticite des annales and des histories de Tacite, in which he claimed old Poggio forged the works of Tacitus. Who could doubt our history? Certainly not the many departments of Roman history in universities around the world.
Here I thought that I was the only person who had ever read him ... or even heard of him.
you are amazing! awesome
Thank you!
Great bit of additional wood for the fireplace! A little bit of Sicilian driftwood if you will. A nice addition for the tales around the fires of history, I thank you for the introduction. 🌎✌️🌍
Dee-O-dor-oos See-kew-lews, thanks.
Inventor of the deodorant
"Where there's smoke there's a fire" in history benefits from "but hard to know if smoke, fog, or windborne dust"
It is also wild to think that EVERY copy of the text was done bu hand. Every book was a full scroll of papyrus
Thank you, Erica. ❤❤❤
Thank YOU for watching!
Historicizing myth is mentioned in Plato's Republic, where they discussed creating history where gaps exist and in earlier times when there were no historians. In these instances fabricating history was allowed. Invoking Gods with the history would be used to make the account authoritative.
Yeah, I had a friend ask me to find them a copy of one of the books for reference. By the time I'd found it, they had forgotten who he was. Maybe there was a Diodorus Effect where even the people who knew who he was forgot about him?
gorgeous & smart
Diodorus Siculus is one of the most prominent historians when it comes to Alexander the Great and Dyonasis I of Syracuse to name a few, for a man of his era, mythology was historical.
Thank you for the video, I wouldn't ask the author if she speaks italian, ma u sicilianu u para?!
I might be controversial for this, but he's more reliable than Herodotus for me.
Diodorous could be the first one you go with BUT skip books 1-5 unless you like mythology
11-15 are a really good summary of greek history and it's easier to get the general narrative than reading Herodotus who goes off on tangents every 5 seconds or Thucydides who gets bogged down in details or Xenophon who refuses to mention some major figures because he had beef with them
The philip-alexander chapters are the only continuous source we've got for the stuff AFTER Alex died! It cuts off a bit early but still, nowhere else to go!
Can you make some video about Hegesias from Cyrene?
Is there a book to 60BCE->1AD or is that the Gallic wars? And do you think there are writers guild on that time? lol
From the point of view of a Historian, Diodorus’ biggest drawback is that large portions of his work are directly copied out of more famous historians such as Thucydides and Zenophon.
How anyone would not know who Diodorus Siculus was? It baffles me (I am not an ancient historian).
Herodotus claimed Arabia was full of flying serpents so should any of these people be taken seriously?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_dussumieri flying serpernts......
@@gabrielidesantonis Cool, but I was hoping for real flying serpents like Amaruca, which translates to Land of the Plumed Serpent in Mayan. America is literally named for DRAGONS.
If you could travel back to ancient times for a look, what and when would you want to see? I'm thinking the library at Alexandria before it's fiery end.
I can tell you about the history of my neighborhood from 1969 through 1977.
What does Zeus have to say about this?
My favourite nerd corner 🙂
Hello Italian based DNA hottie nerd girl, nice video
I’m also part of Sicilian
Forget him, who is she 😍
listen at 1.5 the speed or faster, skip the first 2 min and last 1 min.
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Only 174 views so far... Oh the humanity!!!!!
I would for you to read my historical fantasy novel Albert Demas and review since i am really looking for support 😂
Please, he isn't Dye A Door us.The "i" in Greek and Latin is always short, as in "hit". Dee-oh-dor-us.
I wasn't going to ask you if you spoke Italian ..... I was going to ask you if you spoke Sicilian.
I do not 😂 My mother never taught me!
Say DIODORUS SICULUS 3 times. You can't.
Funny ?
Say it 3 times to a polished bronze mirror...
Let us know what happens.
But you have an English accent.
As an American I love her accent ❤
Maybe her dad is British?
@@WorthlessWinner hmmm 🤔
My dad is not British - he’s Canadian. I just grew up and still live in the U.K.
@@MoAnInc you're the world's most interesting woman 😊
Gd get to the f ing point im tired of long winded pre explanations
Hello! If this video isn’t for you, that’s okay. There are lots of other history channels on TH-cam that would probably suit you better. Thanks for giving my channel a go (but I’m not thanking you for the unnecessarily rude comment 😇).
@MoAnInc please,you're the rude one for unnecessarily bloviating to extend a video. Its a waste of time,nor did I search you out. It was in the feed. 1:30 is the tip top of where people should start over that is taking a video with no or little substance and stretching it. Usually Ill just stop it and click not to show the channel,but however rude I was. The intent was being helpful in a rude way back for the rudeness of bloviating.
you are looking so beautiful this morning