Editing Diodorus Siculus (section)

==Life==
According to his own work, he was born in [[Agira|Agyrium]] in [[Sicily]] (now called Agira).<ref>Diod. ''History'' 1.4.4.</ref> With one exception, [[classical antiquity|antiquity]] affords no further information about his life and doings beyond his written works. Only [[Jerome]], in his ''[[Chronicon (Jerome)|Chronicon]]'' under the "year of [[Abraham]] 1968" (49 BC), writes, "Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious". However, his [[English language|English]] translator, [[Charles Henry Oldfather]], remarks on the "striking coincidence"<ref>{{cite book |title=Diodorus of Sicily In Twelve Volumes |author-link=Charles Henry Oldfather |first=Charles Henry |last=Oldfather |year=1977 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> that one of only two known Greek inscriptions from Agyrium (''[[Inscriptiones Graecae]]'' XIV, 588) is the tombstone of one "Diodorus, the son of Apollonius" (“''Διόδωρος ∙ Ἀπολλωνίου''”) .<ref>{{cite book |title=Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation by Ctesias |first=Jan P. |last=Stronk |year=2010 |page=60}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=IG XIV 588 - PHI Greek Inscriptions |url=https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/140915?&bookid=26&location=1686 |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=epigraphy.packhum.org}}</ref> The final work attributed to him is from 21 BC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diodorus-Siculus |title= Diodorus Siculus - Greek historian |accessdate= July 13, 2023}}</ref>