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Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 18.59.6

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For human life, as if some god were at the helm, moves in a cycle through good and evil alternately for all time. It is not strange, then, that some one unforeseen event has taken place, but rather that all that happens is not unexpected. This is also a good reason for admitting the claim of history, for in the inconstancy and irregularity of events history furnishes a corrective for both the arrogance of the fortunate and the despair of the destitute.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Polybius, Histories, 1.35 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 11.49.4, 18.59.4-18.59.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

11.49.4. These citizens lived together on good terms in the state for fifty-eight years; but at the expiration of this period the city was conquered and razed to the ground by the Carthaginians and has remained without inhabitants to this day. 18.59.4. All wondered at the incredible fickleness of Fortune, when they considered that a little while before the kings and the Macedonians had condemned Eumenes and his friends to death, but now, forgetting their own decision, they not only had let him off scot-free of punishment, but also had entrusted to him the supreme command over the entire kingdom. 18.59.5. And it was with good reason that these emotions were shared by all who then beheld the reversals in Eumenes' fortunes; for who, taking thought of the inconstancies of human life, would not be astonished at the alternating ebb and flow of fortune? Or who, putting his trust in the predomice he enjoys when Fortune favours him, would adopt a bearing too high for mortal weakness?

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
"historiography,hellenistic"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
"justice,divine"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
"moralising,digressive"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
ability to handle good fortune	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93
conventions or themes,moral focus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
correlation between action and result as a means of moralising	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
destruction of\n,troy	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
digressions	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 94
diodorus siculus	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
dionysius of halicarnassus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
fortune,τύχη/fortuna	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
gods	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93, 94
humility	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93
kingship	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 94
leadership	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 94
livy	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
moderation'	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93
olympiads	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
periodisation of history	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
polybius	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 93
progress,historical	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
providence,πρόνοια/providentia	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
temporal terminology\n,καιρός	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70
temporal terminology\n,χρόνος	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 70