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    Chronographica, respectively) both record Berossus' use of "public records" and it is possible that Berossus catalogued his sources. This did not make...
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  • drew attention away from the study of the works of Berossus), the fragments of the works of Berossus were the only genuine surviving material known from...
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    Feast of Sacea] Berossus from Alexander Polyhistor recorded in Eusebius and Syncellus (translated from the Greek). In summary, Berossus' Babylonian history...
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  • the son and successor of Neriglissar. Though classical authors such as Berossus wrote that Labashi-Marduk was just a child when he became king, Babylonian...
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    his offspring in Europe, and once attributed to the Chaldean historian Berossus, but now considered to have been a fabrication by the 15th-century Italian...
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    recorded as the hero of the Eridu Genesis and appears in the writings of Berossus as Xisuthros.[citation needed] Ziusudra is one of several mythic characters...
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    discovered, substantial elements of the myth had survived via the writings of Berossus, primarily his Babyloniaca, a 3rd-century BCE Babylonian writer and priest...
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    the gardens by Berossus, a Babylonian priest of Marduk, whose writing c. 290 BC is the earliest known mention of the gardens. Berossus described the reign...
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    Berossus' account begins with a primeval ocean. Unlike in the Enuma Elish, where sea monsters are generated for combat with other gods, in Berossus'...
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    15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo, the Hellenistic Babylonian writer Berossus had stated that the sons' wives were Pandora, Noela, and Noegla, and that...
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