Like the geographer Pausanias, this historian wrote about an oracle which said "Wreathed is the bull. All is done. Thereis also the one who will smite him," foretelling that a certain man would be assassinated with a Celtic dagger while wearing agarland outside the entrance to a theatre. He relied upon the writing of Agatharcides to give a famously detailed descriptionof gold mining in ancient Nubia, as practiced by chained slaves, and he wrote that he personally witnessed the lynching ofa Roman man in Egypt for killing a holy cat under the reign of Ptolemy XI Auletes. He's the only source on the Battle ofChaeronea and the stabbing of Philip II of Macedon at his daughter's wedding. This historian from Agyrium is known fora work in forty books which runs from ancient times through the Gallic Wars of Caesar, though none of the books aftfter 20survive in toto. For 10 points, name this author of the Bibliotheca Historica, or Library of World History, whose surnamerefers to the fact that he
Like the geographer Pausanias, this historian wrote about an oracle which said "Wreathed is the bull. All is done. Thereis also the one who will smite him," foretelling that a certain man would be assassinated with a Celtic dagger while wearing agarland outside the entrance to a theatre. He relied upon the writing of Agatharcides to give a famously detailed descriptionof gold mining in ancient Nubia, as practiced by chained slaves, and he wrote that he personally witnessed the lynching ofa Roman man in Egypt for killing a holy cat under the reign of Ptolemy XI Auletes. He's the only source on the Battle ofChaeronea and the stabbing of Philip II of Macedon at his daughter's wedding. This historian from Agyrium is known fora work in forty books which runs from ancient times through the Gallic Wars of Caesar, though none of the books aftfter 20survive in toto. For 10 points, name this author of the Bibliotheca Historica, or Library of World History, whose surnamerefers to the fact that he was born on Sicily.
Like the geographer Pausanias, this historian wrote about an oracle which said "Wreathed is the bull.
Diodorus Siculus [or Diodorus of Sicily]