Berossus

Also known as Berosus the Chaldean, Berossus of Babylon, Berosus

thumb| Berossus () or Berosus (; ; possibly derived from ) was an early-3rd-century BCE Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, priest of Bel Marduk, and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language.

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Place of birth: Babylon
Image: Beroso.png

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date of birth: 0400-01-01
date of death: 0300-01-01
Commons category: Berossus
name in native language: Berossos
end of work period: 0300-00-00
start of work period: 0400-00-00
significant place: Babylon

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Antiquitatum variarum autores, quorum catalogum sequens continet pagella

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Berosi priests chaldaici, Antiquitatum libri quinque

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Name
Life and work
''Babyloniaca'' (History of Babylonia)
Sources and content
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Transmission and reception
Memory
References
Bibliography
External links

thumb| Berossus () or Berosus (; ; possibly derived from ) was an early-3rd-century BCE Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, priest of Bel Marduk, and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language.

His original works, including the Babyloniaca (, are lost, but fragments survive in some quotations, largely in the writings of the fourth-century CE early Christian writer Eusebius.