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).