biography
pronunciation:
[diyohdawrus sikyu
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| male
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| lived:
| (1st-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek historian, born in Agyrium, Sicily. He travelled in Asia and Europe, and lived in Rome, collecting for 30 years the materials for his immense Bibliothēkē Historikē, a history of the world in 40 books. The first five books are extant entire; the next five are lost; the next 10 are complete; and there are only fragments of the remainder. |
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