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The 49 pages that link to Diodorus Siculus, each with the reason it gives.

• ManethoRelated: His account of Egypt preserves a separate Greek-language narrative of Egyptian antiquity.

• XenophonCompared with: His later account of fourth-century events lets historians compare Xenophon with a broader narrative tradition.

• Battle of ChaeroneaRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative of the battle.

• Ancient Greek historiographyRelated: His Bibliotheca preserves material from many earlier Greek historians whose works are lost.

• Battle of GaugamelaRelated: His account preserves a distinct ancient narrative of Gaugamela and its aftermath.

• CtesiasRelated: His account of Persian history drew on Ctesias.

• Battle of IssusRelated: His narrative supplies a major ancient account of the battle and its aftermath.

• Mithridates VI EupatorRelated: His surviving account offers evidence about Mithridates’s court, though much of it is fragmentary.

• Battle of PlataeaRelated: His account offers a later narrative of Plataea alongside Herodotus’ earlier history.

• EuhemerismRelated: His Library of History transmitted key details of Euhemerus’s narrative.

• ArrianCompared with: Diodorus preserves another substantial ancient account against which Arrian’s choices can be compared.

• Battle of LeuctraRelated: His account preserves details of Leuctra that differ in emphasis from Xenophon’s.

• Battle of MycaleRelated: His account offers an alternative chronology and narrative for the battle.

• Battle of AegospotamiRelated: His account preserves details about the capture and execution of Athenian prisoners.

• Battle of the GranicusRelated: His version offers a distinct ancient narrative of the battle and its casualties.

• Battle of the HydaspesRelated: His version provides a separate ancient account of the battle.

• OlympiasRelated: His account of the successor wars records Olympias’s final political struggle.

• Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldRelated: His account preserves ancient descriptions of several monuments later grouped among the Wonders.

• Amasis IIRelated: His later account adds traditions about Amasis’s rise and reputation.

• HistoriesCompared with: His later account of the Persian Wars shows how ancient historians reshaped earlier narratives.

• MegasthenesRelated: Diodorus transmitted material attributed to Megasthenes about Indian customs and society.

• PosidoniusRelated: Diodorus has often been proposed as a transmitter of Posidonius’s historical material.

• BagoasRelated: His account is a key source for Bagoas’s alleged role in royal killings.

• Hanging Gardens of BabylonRelated: His description supplies details of the terraced structure and its water supply.

• LusitaniansRelated: His account is one of the ancient sources for Viriathus and the Lusitanian wars.

• Psamtik IIIRelated: His later narrative offers another ancient account of the Persian invasion.

• Battle of CorupediumRelated: His surviving narrative is a principal literary source for the successor wars.

• Incense trade routeRelated: His account preserves descriptions of South Arabian wealth and commerce.

• PorusRelated: His account offers a distinct version of Alexander’s encounter with Porus.

• Twenty-eighth Dynasty of EgyptRelated: His account supplies a later narrative of Amyrtaeus’s defeat and execution.

• Battle of CunaxaRelated: His surviving narrative provides a later account of Cunaxa and its political stakes.

• Battle of the AegatesRelated: His surviving narrative offers another ancient account of the war’s final phase.

• Battle of the AlliaRelated: His version provides an account independent of Livy's Roman narrative.

• Battle of the Persian GateRelated: His narrative offers an ancient account of the Persian Gate’s defense and defeat.

• First Servile WarRelated: His surviving account is the principal narrative source for the revolt.

• History of the Peloponnesian WarRelated: His later account preserves an alternative tradition for comparing episodes and chronology.

• Kingdom of PontusRelated: His surviving account contributes to the record of Mithridates and Pontic affairs.

• ApriesRelated: His later history offers another ancient account of Egypt’s kings and Apries’s overthrow.

• Fourth Macedonian WarRelated: His surviving account helps preserve the revolt’s place in the wider Roman expansion.

• GelonRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative source for Gelon’s reign.

• Punic religionRelated: His account of Carthaginian child sacrifice is central to the textual case.

• Second Messenian WarRelated: His narrative offers a later account of the conflict and its chronology.

• Battle of ArginusaeRelated: His account differs from Xenophon's and shapes debate over the trial's procedure.

• Milo of CrotonRelated: His account records Milo's role in the defense of Croton.

• Pausanias of OrestisRelated: Diodorus gives the fullest surviving narrative of Pausanias’s motive and the assassination.

• Battle of AgrigentumRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative source for the campaign at Agrigentum.

• Battle of Cape EcnomusRelated: Fragments of his account provide another ancient perspective on the First Punic War.

• Eurydice II of MacedonRelated: His account is among the ancient narratives used to reconstruct Macedonian events of this period.

• Hamilcar I of CarthageRelated: His narrative is a major surviving source for the expedition and battle.