Diodorus

Diodorus, called Siculus, because a native of Sicily, a historian of the time of Julius Ceesar and of Augustus. Having formed the project of writing a. universal history, he devoted thirty years to the purpose, and travelled widely in Asia and Em-ope. His work was a history of the world from the beginning to the Gallic wars of Julius Caesar. It was divided into three periods and 40 books, but of these books only 1-5 and 11-20, with some fragments, have survived.