# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:16.321Z

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name: "Diodorus Siculus"
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description: "A Greek historian who tried to write the entire story of the known world — from myth through Alexander to his own century — in forty volumes, most of which are now lost."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Diodorus came from Sicily and worked through the first century BC compiling what he called the Bibliotheca historica, a universal history that drew openly on earlier authors. He divided it into three parts: mythic time to the fall of Troy, arranged by geography and sweeping from Egypt and India to Europe; the Trojan War through Alexander's death; and the centuries down to around 60 BC. Forty books in total. Fifteen survive intact. The title Bibliotheca — "library" — was his acknowledgment that he was synthesizing the work of many writers before him, not claiming sole discovery.