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On the work of Berossus (2)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Historiographic texts 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.11 Historiography 05.11.02 Historiographic texts Seven sages 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.03 Antediluvian age 01.02.03.03 Seven sages	Keywords Babylonia Berossus
Period 9th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

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Synkellos, Chronographia 14:
Berossus, the author of the Chaldean ancient history, who flourished, as he says, during the period of Alexander the Macedonian, found in Babylon the records of many [writers] carefully preserved, which encompassed about 150,000 years and a little more: certain stories about heaven and earth and the sea and the antiquity of kings and their deeds, and location of the region of Babylonia and its fertility, and certain creatures that appeared from the Erythrean Sea, unnatural in form, and other such mythical things - these he recorded with a certain boastfulness.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Chronographia 14

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 19

Adler, 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.

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