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Syncretism of the Persian Period (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
Berossus
Zoroastrianism
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires 		Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F12:
At the time when Zoroaster-Zarades flourished, he was the Persian leader and guide of the holy rites of the Magoi. He changed the former rituals and established beliefs that were blended and varied and mixed. For of old he honoured Zeus and Kronos and all the other gods commonly found among the Greeks, except that he did not preserve their names, but Zeus was Bel, Heracles was Sandes, Aphrodite was Anaitis, and others are called by other names as is told by all those who wrote of the ancient history of the Assyrians and the Medes, as Berossus the Babylonian and Athenokles and Simakos.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F12

Bibliography

Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 62-63Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

Amar Annus


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