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The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BC. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century AD Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent ...
OF THE COSMOGONY AND DELUGE. B EROSSUS, in the first book of his history of Babylonia, informs us that he lived in the age of Alexander the son of Philip. And he mentions that there were written accounts, preserved at Babylon with the greatest care, comprehending a period of above fifteen myriads of years: and that these writings contained ...
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May 23, 2018 · Berossus (perhaps Bel-reushunu in Akkadian) was a Babylonian priest, who wrote the so-called Babylonian History or Babyloniaka in Greek about 281 b.c.e. Dedicated to the Seleucid king Antiochus I (281-261 b.c.e.), these three books covered the history of Babylonia.
This book chapter, published in 2008, discusses the intellectual world in which Berossus lived. Berossus was a Babylonian priest, who lived in the early Hellenistic period, and produced a Babyloniaca in three books about the culture and history of Babylonia from the beginnings to his own time.
- R.J. (Bert) van der Spek
THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES AND BEROSSUS. Students of comparative religion and historians of historiography have for some time now been debating the value, or even the validity, of an " historical outlook ". Within the swamps of this impossibly large debate, one of the few points of seeming. was alien to the peoples of the ancient Near East, the ...
Berossus was a Babylonian priest, who lived in the early Hellenistic period, and produced a Babyloniaca in three books about the culture and history of Babylonia from the beginnings to his own time. This article focusses on the history of Babylonia in the first millennium BC.
Berossus and the Graeco-Babyloniaca; Kathryn Stevens, University of Durham; Book: Between Greece and Babylonia; Online publication: 29 May 2019; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303552.003
