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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus

—How the Persians fought against Evagoras in Cyprus (chaps. 2-4, 8-9). —How the Lacedaemonians, contrary to the common agreements, deported the Mantineians from their native land (chaps. 5, 12). —On the poems of Dionysius the tyrant (chaps. 6-7). —On the arrest of Tiribazus and his acquittal (chaps. 8, 10-11). —On the death of Glos and the condemnation of Orontes (chaps. 11, 18). —How Amyntas and the Lacedaemonians made war upon the Olynthians (chaps. 19, 21-23). —How the Lacedaemonians seized the Cadmeia (chap. 20). —How they enslaved the Greek cities contrary to the covenants (chap. 23). —The settlement of the island of Pharos in the Adriatic (chap. 13). —The campaign of Dionysius against Tyrrhenia and the plundering of the temple (chap. 14). —The campaign of Dionysius against the Carthaginians; his victory and defeat (chaps. 15-17). —How the Thebans recovered the Cadmeia (chaps. 25-27). —How the Carthaginians were endangered when afflicted by a plague (chap. 24). —On the Boeotian War and the events connected with it (chaps. 28-35). —The campaign of the Triballi against Abdera (chap. 36). —The campaign of the Persians against Egypt (chaps. 41-43). —How the Thebans defeated the Lacedaemonians in the most famous battle of Leuctra and laid claim to the supremacy of Greece (chaps. 50-56). —The accomplishments of the Thebans during their invasions of the Peloponnesus (chaps. 62-66, 69, 75, 82-88 passim). —On the system of training of Iphicrates and his discoveries in the art of war (chap. 44). —The campaign of the Lacedaemonians against Corcyra (chaps. 46-47). —On the earthquake and inundation that took place in the Peloponnesus and the torch that appeared in the heavens (chaps. 48-50). —How there took place among the Argives a great slaughter which was called the reign of club-law (chaps. 57-58). —On Jason, the tyrant of Pherae, and his successors (chaps. 57, 60, 80, 95). —The synoecismos of Messene by the Thebans (chaps. 66-67). —The campaign of the Boeotians against Thessaly (chap. 67).


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