Diodorus Siculus, dy uh DAWR uhs SIHK yuh luhs, was an ancient Greek historian who lived sometime between 100 B.C. and the birth of Christ. Diodorus wrote a 40-volume history titled Library of History. Fewer than half the volumes have survived complete (books 1 through 5 and 11 through 20), though parts of the others have been preserved. Books 1 through 3 deal with the early histories of such non-Greek peoples as the Egyptians and the Assyrians. An account of Greek history, beginning with early legends, followed. Books 11 through 20 provide a continuous account of Greek history from 480 to 301 B.C. The lost second half of the work covered Greek and Roman history to about 59 B.C.