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    Berossus (redirect from Berossos)
    (/bəˈrɒsəs/) or Berosus (/bəˈroʊsəs/; Ancient Greek: Βηρωσσος, romanized: Bērōssos; possibly derived from Late Babylonian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒉺𒇻𒋙𒉡, romanized: Bēl-reʾû-šunu...
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    design of both is false, as both Berossos and Manetho, as I have said before, want to glorify each his own nation, Berossos the Chaldean, Manetho the Egyptian...
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  • J.M. Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, 1996. De Breucker, Geert. "Berossos of Babylon...
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    ISBN 0-500-27384-7. Rollinger, Robert (2013). "Berossos and the Monuments". In Haubold, J.; et al. (eds.). The World of Berossos. Wiesbaden. p. 151. ISBN 978-3-447-06728-7...
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    read Larsamki), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of...
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    that interval. It has been suggested that he obtained this value from Berossos (c. 3rd century BC) who reckoned time in intervals of 60, 600 and 3600...
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    then-lover Clytie, leaving her heartbroken. Lysippe was the mother of Tanais by Berossos. Her son only venerated Ares and was fully devoted to war, neglecting love...
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  • [permanent dead link] Verbrugghe, Gerald P.; Wickersham, John M. (2001) [1996]. Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated: Native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia...
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    Alla or Alla-Gula, sukkal of Ningishzida. Anahita Persia According to Berossos, the cult of Anahita was introduced by Artaxerxes I to many cities in the...
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    ISBN 978-3-8331-6000-4. Verbrugghe, Gerald Paul; Wickersham, John Moore (2001) [1996], Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia...
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    (29.53059 days). Cicero, reacting to the chronologies of such authors as Berossos (who composed a Greek-language history of Babylonia, known as the Babyloniaca...
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     9–10 Smith, W. Robertson (1887), p. 313–314. Breucker, Geert de (2021). "Berossos and the Construction off a Near Eastern Cultural History in Response to...
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    ISBN 9781405160704. Verbrugghe, Gerald P.; Wickersham, John M. (1996). Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated: native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia...
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    man—a nuance lost or uncommented on by later copyists. What remains of Berossos' account via Apollodorus begins with a description on Babylonia, followed...
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  • ISBN 9789774163722. Quoted from: Gerald Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated. University of Michigan Press, 2001...
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    lengths of shadows at different times of the year. The Babylonian writer Berossos (fl. 3rd century BC) is credited by the Greeks with the invention of a...
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    or in Greek, Oannes" Breucker, Geert de (2021), Hokwerda, Hero (ed.), "Berossos and the Construction off a Near Eastern Cultural History in Response to...
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    ISBN 0-631-19396-0, p. 66. Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia...
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    grains and plants. He was believed to have been reincarnated several times. Berossos, priest of the Temple of Bel, in Babylon, knew of as many as six such reincarnations...
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  • Chronographica 73.14 Gerald Verbrugghe; John Wickersham (19 January 2001). Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia...
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  • later Roman writers like Strabo (Geographia 16:1–6). Like his predecessor Berossos, Sudines moved from Babylonia and established himself among the Greeks;...
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  • clock is developed similar in shape to a bent T-square. 3rd century BC - Berossos invents the hemispherical sundial. 270 BCE - Ctesibius builds a water clock...
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  • Giovanni B. Lanfranchi, Robert Rollinger, John Steele (eds.), The World of Berossos (Classica et Orientalia 5), Wiesbaden 2013. ISBN 9783447067287 Michael...
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  • Lyssipos of Sikyon, the mathematician Eukleidēs, Babylonian historian Berossos (initially as a member of the sculptor's catapult crew), Rhodes's antagonists...
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