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Clio's other sons : Berossus and Manetho, with an afterword on Demetrius /

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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...

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Main Author: Dillery, John, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Berosus, > the Chaldean > Criticism and interpretation.
Manetho > Criticism and interpretation.
Berosus, > the Chaldean. > Babylōniaka.
Manetho. > Aegyptiaca.
Babylonia > Historiography.
Egypt > Historiography.
Historiography > Greece > History > To 1500.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.

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