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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]
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. If not the earliest, it was at least one of the first productions of this kind in Greek literature.
Followed by Post-classical history. v. t. e. Babylonia (/ ˌbæbɪˈloʊniə /; Akkadian: 𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran). It emerged as an Akkadian populated but Amorite -ruled ...
Babyloniaca may refer to: Babyloniaca, a lost historical work of Berossus; Babyloniaca [fi; ru], an ancient Greek novel of Iamblichus (novelist) See also.
The name "Berossus" likely originates from a theophoric name whose first component was Bel, meaning "Lord," which was a common title for Marduk. The original name was either either Bēl-rē’ûšunu, meaning "the god Bel is their shepherd," or Bēl-uṣuršu, meaning "O Bel watch over him!" [6]
Graeco-Babyloniaca. 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. Quoting Edmond Sollberger: They are obviously school texts written by some Greek student, or students, of Sumerian or ...
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1896–1901. Hungarian cinema began in 1896, when the first screening of the films of the Lumière Brothers was held on the 10th of May in the cafe of the Royal Hotel of Budapest. In June of the same year, Arnold and Zsigmond Sziklai opened the first Hungarian movie theatre on 41 Andrássy Street named the Okonograph, where they screened ...