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date: 04 June 2020

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This article aims to contribute to the study of Babylonian traditions in Berossos' time and to reveal how a native Babylonian conceived the history of his culture at that period. It examines how Babylonian and Greek culture converged and shows that Berossos unified Babylonian historical traditions and Greek scholarship and transformed native traditions according to Greek forms and concepts. It also describes Berossos' portrait of Babylonian history and its wider cultural context.

Keywords: Berossos, Babylonian traditions, Babylonian culture, Greek culture, historical traditions, Greek scholarship

Geert De Breucker

Geert De Breucker studied classics and ancient Near Eastern studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, and wrote his PhD thesis at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the Babyloniaca of Berossos and its cultural setting. His main research interests are in Babylonia in the Hellenistic period and the cultural interactions between the Greek world and Mesopotamia.

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