ALEXANDER POLYHISTOR AND THE BABYLONIACA OF BEROSSOS.
All the works of the prolific encyclopaedic author Alexander Polyhistor have only been preserved in fragments: only his 'On Jews' and 'Chaldaica' are better known. In his 'On Jews', Polyhistor brought together various sources on Jewish history. The 'Chaldaica' addressed Babylonian as well as Assyria...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 57 - 69 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2012
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