Bérose
Bérose or Bérossos (in Greek old Βεροσσος / Berossos ) is a priest Chaldée N, astronomer but also historian of third century BC, born with Babylon.
Biography
Bérose was born during or before the reign from Alexandre Large the on Babylon (330 - 323 av. J. - C.), the possible date most distant being 340. It is thought that its name, in its native language akkadienne, was Beautiful-Re-ušu , which means “Beautiful (Marduk) is my shepherd”. According to Vitruve in Of Structured , Bérose left finally for the island Cos, with broad of the minor Asia, and establishes there a school of astrology under the patronage of the king of Egypt. One is unaware of the date of his death.Priest of Bélos, it lived about the time of Ptolémée Philadelphe.
Bérose published a Babylõniaká Histoire of Babylon” (also called Chaldaika Histoire of Chaldée”) on a date ranging between 290 and 278, on behalf of the king Macedonian - Séleucide Antiochos Ier and in which it went up until the birth of the world and spoke about a universal flood.
Some astrological fragments joined together by Pline Old the, Censorinus, Flavius Josèphe and Vitruve are also allotted to him.
Part of the Latin text Commentariorum in Aratum Reliquiae , entitled Procreatio , is allotted to him in addition, although no proof makes it possible to establish it.
It was also distinguished in the Astronomie and made known a new species of Sundial. It left its fatherland to visit the Greece and was made so much admire Athenians, that they raised to him a statue attesting of his fame and his scholarship as a historian and an astronomer-astrologer. Some scientists make of the astronomer and the historian two characters different.
Annius de Viterbe had in 1498 published a history in 5 books under the name of Bérose; but one was not long in recognizing the falseness of his writing.
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See too
- famous Historians
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