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Picus Zeus the king of Assyrians (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity



05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


Keywords
Assyria
genealogy
Kronos
Period
6th century CE
Byzantine Empire
Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars


Text
Malalas, Chronicle 1.8-9:
From this tribe of Shem, Noah’s first son which held Syria, Persia and the remaining areas of the East, there was born and appeared a man who was of the race of giants, named Kronos, given that name by Damnos his father after the planet. He was a strong man who was the first to practice ruling, that is, the governing and controlling of other men. He was the first to reign over the Assyrians, which he did for many years, and he subjugated the entire land of Persia, beginning from Assyria. He was feared by all as a savage and warlike man who destroyed everyone. This man had a wife Semiramis, also known as Rhea by the Assyrians because she was proud and boastful. She was of the same tribe. Kronos had a son, named Picus, who was called Zeus by his parents, also after the planet. Kronos had another son, named Ninus, and a daughter named Hera. Picus Zeus took as his wife his own sister, named Hera; some people called her “wifely retribution” because she was good, just and universally benevolent. Picus had a son by her whom he called Belus, because the child was very sharp. Kronos, the grandfather, left his son Picus in Assyria and his wife Rhea Semiramis with his son Picus Zeus; taking a large force, a host of valiant men, he went off to the West which was without an emperor and not subject to any governor. He disappeared from Assyria and took possession of the western regions.


Source (list of abbreviations)
Malalas, Chronicle 1.8-9

Bibliography

Jeffreys, Jeffreys and Scott 1986, 6Jeffreys, E., M. Jeffreys and R. Scott. The Chronicle of John Malalas. A Translation. Byzantina Australiensia 4. Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies 1986.

Amar Annus


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