Murphy, Edwin, The Antiquities of Asia. A Translation with Notes of Book II of the Library of History of Diodorus Siculus. New Brunswick, Oxford: Transaction Publ. 1989. (36), 130 p., 17 plates. Cloth with jacket. Large 8vo. 462 g* Diodorus Siculus lived in the first century B.C. Written for the literate Greeks of his day, „The Antiquities of Asia“ covers the period from the from the rise of the Assyrian empire in Mesopotamia until the collapse of Median hegemony about 550 B.C.; it also includes what was then known of the histories of Arabia, India and Scythia, as well as legends concerning the Amazons, the Hyperboreans, and the mysteriuôus Islands of the Sun in the remote Indian Ocean.
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