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Diodorus(c.90-21 BC)Diodorus Siculus was born on Sicily and was a
contemporary of Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony, Cleopatra and Augustus, Diodorus
wrote the Historical Library, Bibliotheca Historica, which was a history of the
world in 40 books. This work has only partly survived, for example his
description of Alexander the Great's giant funeral procession.