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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 BCE. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent in learned circles as late as late antiquity. [2]
His original works, including the Babyloniaca, have been lost but fragmentarily survive in some quotations, especially in the writings of the fourth-century CE Christian writer Eusebius. [ 4 ] Berossus has recently been identified with Bēl-reʾû-šunu, a high priest of the Esagila Temple mentioned in a document from 258 BCE.
Babyloniaca may refer to: Babyloniaca, a lost historical work of Berossus; Babyloniaca [fi; ru], an ancient Greek novel of Iamblichus (novelist) See also.
Bilingual tablet, Graeco-Babyloniaca, c. 50 BC to 50 AC (Harvard Semitic Museum) The Graeco-Babyloniaca (singular: Graeco-Babyloniacum [1]) are clay tablets written in the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using cuneiform on one side with transliterations in the Greek alphabet on the other.
The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. [2]They represent one of the first steps in the development of ancient historiography.
Iamblichus (Ancient Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος; fl. c. 165–180 AD) was an ancient Syrian Greek novelist.He was the author of the Babyloniaca (Βαβυλωνιακά, Babylōniaká, 'Babylonian Stories' [1]), a romance novel in Greek.
The king of Babylon (Akkadian: šakkanakki Bābili, later also šar Bābili) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon and its kingdom, Babylonia, which existed as an independent realm from the 19th century BC to its fall in the 6th century BC.
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