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Title: An explanation of the obvious.
Review: When you search for Diodorus, this book pops up on top, which doesn't make much sense, since it is volume 11 of 12.Diodorus is who you read next, after you have read Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, and find you just can't get enough ancient history of the Greeks. What I like best is that Diodorus, unlike the others, tells what was happening in Greece and Rome at the same time.Diodorus wrote 40 books of history, of which Books 1 - 5 and 11 - 20 survive. Each of the 12 Loeb Library books reprints one and a fraction "books", so the numbers don't match up. If you like myth, I recommend starting with Loeb Vol 1. If you prefer history of real events, begin with Diodorus 11, which is roughly Loeb 4 or 5.The Loeb volumes give the Greek on one page and the translation on the facing page. Since I don't read Greek, it would be nice in Penguin would do a paperback with just the translation, but I haven't seen one yet.Rick Norwood
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