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Berossus was a Babylonian priest, historian, and mythographer living in Babylon in the late third century BC. He is best known for writing a history of Babylonia in three books, known as the Babyloniaca, which was the earliest history of the Babylonian people. He is also credited with writing a mythological history of the creation of the world, as well as a number of other works on astronomy, astrology, and divination. His works have been lost over the centuries, but fragments of his writings have been preserved in other ancient sources, such as the works of Greek historians. Berossus was an important source of information on the ancient Near East, and his works were widely read in the ancient world.
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Cory, Isaac Preston, The Ancient Fragments; Containing what Remains of the Writings of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho (London: William Pickering, 1828) – partial online version based on the 1832 edition ➤
Hodges, E. Richmond, Cory’s Ancient Fragments of the Phœnician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and other Authors: A New and Enlarged Edition; the Translation Carefully Revised, and Enriched with Notes Critical and Explanatory, with Introductions to the Several Fragments (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876), pp. 43-70 ➤
Paul-Alain Beaulieu, „Eanna‟s contribution to the construction of the North Palace at Babylon‟, in: Heather D. Baker / Michael Jursa (eds.), Approaching the Babylonian Economy. Proceedings of the START Project Symposium on the Economic History of Babylonia in the First Millennium Held in Vienna, 1-3July 2004 (Veröffentlichungen zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte Babyloniens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Band 2, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 330), Münster 2005, 45-73. ➤
Toulmin, Stephen, “The Astrophysics of Berossos the Chaldean”, Isis, 58 (1967), 65-76 ➤
Drews, R., “The Babylonian Chronicles and Berossus”, Iraq, 37 (1975), 39-55 (*). ➤
Kuhrt, Amelie, “Berossus’ Babyloniaka and Seleucid Rule in Babylonia”, in: A. Kuhrt & S.M. Sherwin-White (eds.), Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander (Berkeley/London: University of California Press/Duckworth, 1987 [= Hellenistic Culture and Society, nr. 21]), pp. 32-56 (*). ➤
Gerald P. Verbrugghe; John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated: native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt / 1999 ➤
Berossos — a bibliography ➤
