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Свидетельство Диодора Сицилийского об италийском посольстве к Митридату в период Союзнической войны: достоверность и проблемы интерпретации
Abstract: This article analyses information from the thirty-seventh book of the Diodorus Siculus’ “Historical Library” about the Italian embassy to Mithridates VI Eupator during the Social war (91–88 BCE). Within the framework of this analysis, the issues of dating the Italian embassy, the reliability of the information of Diodorus (Photius) as well as the question of the origin of this information, which were not previously raised in historiography, are examined. The analysis showed that the version of the negotiations between the Italian rebels and the Pontic king was a product of Sullan propaganda and was reflected in the “Memoirs” of L. Cornelius Sulla. Diodorus could borrow this version either directly from Sulla’s “Memoirs” or through Posidonius from Apamea.