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On the work of Berossus (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
Berossus
Period
9th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Synkellos, Chronographia 28:
Berossus says in the first book of his Babyloniaca that he lived during the time of Alexander and he translated many books which had been preserved with great care at Babylon and which dealt with a period of more than 150,000 years. These books contained the history of the sky and the sea, of creation, and the kings and their deeds.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Chronographia 28

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 38Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Burstein 1978, 13Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

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