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  title info:
    title: Clio's other sons
    sub title: Berossus and Manetho, with an afterword on Demetrius
  name:
    name part: Dillery, John
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxviii, 494 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio's Other Sons considers why that is. Why were these histories written at this point, and for what purposes? Berossus and Manetho operated at the crossings of several political, social, and intellectual worlds. They were members of native elites under the domination of Macedonian overlords. In their writings we can see suggestions that they collaborated in the foreign rule of their lands, but at the same time we see them advocating for their cultures. Their histories were written in Greek and betray active engagement with Greek historical writing, but at the same time these texts are clearly composed from native records, are organized along lines determined by local systems of time-reckoning, and articulate views that are deeply informed by regional scholarly and wisdom traditions. In this volume John Dillery charts the interactions of all these features of these historians. An afterword considers Demetrius, the approximate contemporary of Berossus and Manetho in time, if not in culture. While his associates wrote new histories, Demetrius' project was a rewriting of an existing text, the Bible. This historiographical 'corrective' approach sheds light on the novel historiography of Manetho and Berossus.
  note: John Dillery.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-441) and indexes.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: the Chaldean
      name part: Berosus
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Manetho
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: the Chaldean
      name part: Berosus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Manetho
  subject:
    geographic: Babylonia
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Greek literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
  classification: PA3944.B3 D55 2015
  classification: 888/.008
  identifier: 9780472072279
  identifier: 0472072277
  identifier: 9780472052271
  identifier: 0472052276
  identifier: 9780472120451
  identifier: 2014020603
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141014
    record change date: 20151105212621.0
    record identifier: in00003524328