Diodorus Siculus

This first kind of reflective history is most nearly akin to the preceding when it has no farther aim than to present the annals of a country complete.

Such compilations, among which may be reckoned the works of Livy, Diodorus Siculus, Johannes von Müller's History of Switzerland, are, if well performed, highly meritorious.

Among the best of the kind may be reckoned such analysts as approach those of the first class, who give so vivid a transcript of events that the reader may well fancy himself listening to contemporaries and eyewitnesses.

But it often happens that the individuality of tone which must characterize a writer belonging to a different culture is not modified in accordance with the period such a record must traverse.

This first kind of reflective history is most nearly akin to the preceding when it has no farther aim than to present the annals of a country complete.

Such compilations, among which may be reckoned the works of Livy, Diodorus Siculus, Johannes von Müller's History of Switzerland, are, if well performed, highly meritorious.

Among the best of the kind may be reckoned such analysts as approach those of the first class, who give so vivid a transcript of events that the reader may well fancy himself listening

to contemporaries and eyewitnesses.

He named the king buried beside it as Amandaz, and described an adjoining tomb shaped like a pyramid.

Diodorus Siculus, working around the same era, credited the place to a ruler he called Mendes, and said its real marvel wasn't its size, but its design.

He claimed that anyone who went in couldn't find the way out without a guide who knew the building intimately.

He's also the one who passed along the idea that this Egyptian maze inspired the craftsman Daedalus to build the famous Labyrinth of Crete.

This first kind of reflective history is most nearly akin to the preceding when it has no farther aim than to present the annals of a country complete.

Such compilations, among which may be reckoned the works of Livy, Diodorus Siculus, Johannes von Müller's History of Switzerland, are, if well performed, highly meritorious.

Among the best of the kind may be reckoned such annalists as approach those of the first class, who give so vivid a transcript of events that the reader may well fancy himself listening to contemporaries and eyewitnesses.

But it often happens that the individuality of tone which must characterize a writer belonging to a different culture is not modified in accordance with the period such a record must traverse.

let us now cast a glance at the war fever what is comprehended under this name may according to peculiar circumstances be subdivided into several groups first in the category comes the dreaded camp fever tufus in the earliest times already they were aware of this danger which frequently brought worse losses in their armies than the bloodiest engagements It may remain an open question whether the plague which broke out in the naval encampment of the Greeks before Troy assumed just this form.

It is very much more probable that it was that malignant camp fever which in the year 395 BC raged among the Carthaginians when they were besieging Syracuse under Hamilcar, and of which Diodorus has left us a description.

however the plague which broke out in the army of ferdinand the catholic when laying siege to the moors in granada in fourteen ninety is now regarded as the first undoubted epidemic of putrid fever it cut off seventeen thousand men the french host suffered still severer losses in fifteen twenty eight in the camp before naples about the same period to which fra castoro's classical description of spotted fever in upper italy belongs the french policy of intervention in italian affairs which for so many centuries has troubled the fate of that lovely country met at that time with its first decided check to which camp fever did not a little contribute 30,000 French succumbed before the pestilence in sight of Naples, amongst whom their leader Lautrec.

It is uncalled for to pursue the history of camp fever through the long series of the wars of the Middle Ages and modern times.

This first kind of reflective history is most nearly akin to the preceding when it has no farther aim than to present the annals of a country complete.

Such compilations, among which may be reckoned the works of Livy, Diodorus Siculus, Johannes von Müller's History of Switzerland, are, if well performed, highly meritorious.

Among the best of the kind may be reckoned such analysts as approach those of the first class, who give so vivid a transcript of events that the reader may well fancy himself listening to contemporaries and eyewitnesses.

But it often happens that the individuality of tone which must characterize a writer belonging to a different culture is not modified in accordance with the period such a record must traverse.