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Contents of the Thirteenth Book of Diodorus

—The campaign of the Athenians against the Syracusans, with great armaments both land and naval (chaps. 1-3). —The arrival of the Athenians in Sicily (chap. 4). —The recall of Alcibiades the general and his flight to Lacedaemon (chap. 5). —How the Athenians sailed through into the Great Harbour of the Syracusans and seized the regions about the Olympieum (chap. 6). —How the Athenians seized Epipolae and, after victories in battle in both areas, laid siege to Syracuse (chap. 7). —How, after the Lacedaemonians and Corinthians had sent them aid, the Syracusans took courage (chap. 8). —The battle between the Athenians and the Syracusans and the great victory of the Athenians (chap. 9). —The battle between the same opponents and the victory of the Syracusans (chap. 10). —How the Syracusans, having gained control of Epipolae, compelled the Athenians to withdraw to the single camp before the Olympieum (chaps. 8, 11-12). —How the Syracusans prepared a naval force and decided to offer battle at sea (chap. 13). —How the Athenians, after the death of their general Lamachus and the recall of Alcibiades, dispatched in their place as generals Eurymedon and Demosthenes with reinforcements and money (chap. 8). —The termination of the truce by the Lacedaemonians, and the Peloponnesian War, as it is called, against the Athenians (chap. 8). —The sea-battle between the Syracusans and the Athenians and the victory of the Athenians; the capture of the fortresses by the Syracusans and their victory on land (chap. 9). —The sea-battle of all the ships in the Great Harbour and the victory of the Syracusans (chaps. 11-17). —The arrival from Athens of Demosthenes and Eurymedon with a strong force (chap. 11). —The great battle about Epipolae and the victory of the Syracusans (chap. 8). —The flight of the Athenians and the capture of the entire host (chaps. 18-19). —How the Syracusans gathered in assembly and considered the question what disposition should be made of the captives (chap. 19). —The speeches which were delivered on both sides of the proposal (chaps. 20-32). —The decrees which the Syracusans passed regarding the captives (chap. 33). —How, after the failure of the Athenians in Sicily, many of their allies revolted (chap. 34). —How the citizen-body of the Athenians, having lost heart, turned their back upon the democracy and put the government into the hands of four hundred men (chaps. 34, 36). —How the Lacedaemonians defeated the Athenians in sea-battles (chap. 34). —How the Syracusans honoured with notable gifts the men who had played a brave part in the war (chap. 34). —How Diocles was chosen law-giver and wrote their laws for the Syracusans (chaps. 34-35). —How the Syracusans sent a notable force to the aid of the Lacedaemonians (chap. 34). —How the Athenians overcame the Lacedaemonian admiral in a sea-fight and captured Cyzicus (chaps. 39-40). —How, when the Lacedaemonians dispatched fifty ships from Euboea to the aid of the defeated, they together with their crews were all lost in a storm off Athos (chap. 41). —The return of Alcibiades and his election as a general (chaps. 41-42). —The war between the Aegestaeans and the Selinuntians over the land in dispute (chaps. 43-44). —The sea-battle between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians off Sigeium and the victory of the Athenians (chaps. 38-40). —How the Lacedaemonians filled up Euripus with earth and made Euboea a part of the mainland (chap. 47). —On the civil discord and massacre in Corcyra (chap. 48). —How Alcibiades and Theramenes won most notable victories over the Lacedaemonians on both land and sea (chaps. 49-51). —How the Carthaginians transported great armaments to Sicily and took by storm Selinus and Himera (chaps. 54-62). —How Alcibiades sailed into the Peiraeus with much booty and was the object of great acclaim (chaps. 68-69). —How King Agis with a great army undertook to lay siege to Athens and was unsuccessful (chaps. 72-73). —The banishment of Alcibiades and the founding of Thermae in Sicily (chaps. 74, 79). —The sea-battle between the Syracusans and the Carthaginians and the victory of the Syracusans (chap. 80). —On the felicity of life in Acragas and the city's buildings (chaps. 81-84). —How the Carthaginians made war upon Sicily with three hundred thousand soldiers and laid siege to Acragas (chaps. 85-86). —How the Syracusans gathered their allies and went to the aid of the people of Acragas with ten thousand soldiers (chap. 86). —How, when forty thousand Carthaginians opposed them, the Syracusans gained the victory and slew more than six thousand of them (chap. 87). —How, when the Carthaginians cut off their supplies, the Acragantini were compelled, because of the lack of provisions, to leave their native city (chaps. 88-89). —How Dionysius, after he was elected general, secured the tyranny over the Syracusans (chaps. 92-96). —How the Athenians, after winning a most famous sea-battle at Arginusae, unjustly condemned their generals to death (chaps. 97-103). —How the Athenians, after suffering defeat in a great sea-battle, were forced to conclude peace on the best terms they could secure, and in this manner the Peloponnesian War came to an end (chaps. 104-107). —How the Carthaginians were struck by a pestilential disease and were compelled to conclude peace with Dionysius the tyrant (chap. 114).

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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